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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Sep 20, 1920
Page
4
One month stocktaking sale advertises reduced prices on crockery and household hardware including Shelley China tea services and dinner sets. Deals list items such as enamel saucepans kettles aluminum ware and brushware with prices in shillings and pence and emphasize actual cost rather than replacement cost.
Readable items include various brand name chocolates and dried fruits with per pound prices. The list mentions Duchess Tea, Empress Tea, Princess Tea, raisins, prunes, dates, apples, peaches, and cleaning goods like Jeyes fluid, Camphor, and carbolic powder. Also notes Nestles milk and Cadbury chocolates with unit prices and package sizes.
An advertisement asserts that with determined effort ordinary intelligence can rise with training from the International Correspondence Schools. It cites that in one year over five thousand letters report pay increases due to I C S training, and claims thousands more have been helped.
Public notice lists branches and agencies across Dominion towns and directs inquires to the central office for information requests.
A New Zealand shop advertises cookery and home craft titles including Trinity Cookery Book Ashburton Technical Cookery Australian Home Cookery and Iverydey Cookery new edition with many recipes. It retails accessories like photograpy guides and beginner troubles, blackboards slates exercise books and Christmas weekly issues with orders to be booked for October 25. Look in the window East Street.
Tomorrow auction at Tinwald Yards and tonight at His Majesty's Theatre for 8 pictures. Theatre Royal Christchurch screens Lyvie Four at 8 pm. Methodist Church Willowby hosts tea and public social. Oddfellows Hall Tinwald holds a hard-up social event.
A first offender was fined at the Courthouse for drunkenness in East Street on Saturday night before Mr R Galbraith. The Pride of Wakanui Lodge held its annual meeting with three initiates and a forthcoming social planned. Farmers heard on land improvement, pasture methods, and soil science from Dr Hilgendorf and Mr A Hargey. A missing student from Dunedin was discussed in court as an insurance case involving a death presumption. Various public notices, weather, and transport items fill the page, including shipboard blood transfusion recitals and a Canterbury aviation report.
A United Kingdom appeal seeks a quarter million pounds to prevent Westminster Abbey from deteriorating. The Dean warns funds from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Abbey’s endowment barely cover ordinary expenses, risking loss to posterity. The article highlights the Abbey’s historic role from Norman to Tudor eras and its status as a national shrine.
Portable remedy claim promises protection from colds coughs and sore throats with a six pence price for sixty doses. Public notice style advertises wide availability and travel friendly packaging.
Geo Schneider head master of Aghburton School is named inspector with headquarters at Wellington. Robert Bell has been chosen to represent Lyttelton Times and Mr B Bell of Wellington Dominion attends the World's Press Congress in Sydney next March and April.
A pair of brothers Henry and George Stanley wed sisters Ethel and Ernestine Rooe van Dyck in a South London church after a wartime mix up. Engaged in 1914 to the wrong partners, the couples learned the truth in Australia during the war and reunited on return to marry in a double ceremony.
Quick note on a patent remedy titled Woods Great Peppermint Cure claimed to cure coughs and colds. Advertisement tone emphasizes rapid relief and a specific date 1/9 and 2/0 references likely pricing or edition notation.
In Auckland this day, Sugar Workers Union members offered services at Chelsea Works. All but fourteen were reinstated, the ram section of the number arriving as a surprise to unionists. The union secretary says the rejected men had not received a fair deal and that a meeting would likely be held to consider the matter.
H M S Renown chief royal party arrived in Port of Spain on September 18 with the Prince of Wales in excellent health. He engaged in ceremonial duties amid heat, outlined a busy schedule and a trip to Demerara on the Calcutta. He affirmed British West Indies welfare and rejected selling subjects.
Owing to Waikato miners strike Auckland coal stockpiles shrink and the City Council orders a one week tramway shutdown while awaiting supplies. Electricity coal runs are also tight and Northern Steamship routes Paeroa Mangapai and the far north will be cut back next week.
The Brisbane sculling carnival continued in fine weather. Felton led early and overtook Christisen with a short burst but Ripley sprinted and faded late. Felton won by three quarters of a length in a 16 minutes 51 2 5 seconds finish. Arnst finished fifth.
Beir ut reports General Gourand proclaimed the autonomy of the province under French protection at Jeppo. He said French forces would maintain order and pursue prosperity. Separate dispatches note nationalist attacks on Aleppo halting the railway to Alexandretta and damage at Kershan with French casualties totaling 100.
An old advertisement touts Nazol as a powerful penetrating germicide that gives instant relief from influenza. It urges readers to take precautions and buy 9 to 7 doses from a chemist, claiming rapid effect and warding off illness.
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