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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9546, 11 March 1919, Page 1

MEETINGS AND EVENTS. PORT CHRI§ICHURCH. THE Immense Possibilities awaiting Christchureh and" Canterbury aB a COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURE ING CENTRE once it is placed on an. equal footing with the .other ■ Cities; of this Dominion in the handling of its Imports and Exports, .need only be mentioned to become apparent, y That equality can only be accomplished by the MAKING OF CHRISTCHURCH A SEAiPORT. Those Citizens who have the Commercial Welfare and Industrial Progress of North. Canterburyat heart, who have confidence, in future destiny, and who would deplore to see Ghiistchurch crippled by the. competition of other centres, degenerate into a Sec-ond-rrate Provincial Town,. LET THEM NOW GET GOING AND PUSH FOR, A REAL DEEP SEAPORT, fashioned after War Efficiency Harbours, able : <to Receive, Repair and even Build ships , of any magnitude. I Let the Citizens of North Canter-' bury, too, remember the studied and 1 systematic iniquity of the ChristchurehLyttelton Railway Charges,. the Curtailed and Cutrout Passenger Service, the Handlings, the Breakages. a COME IN THOUSANDS AND HEAR THE SPEAKERS. DR. TRACKER, M.P. J. J. GRAHAJI. Chairman_ Port Christchureh League,* * Member Harbour Board. GEO. SCOTT, Member Harbour Board, Great Industrialist. J. B .STRUTHERS, Workers' Educ. Assn. L. M. TSITT, M.P. W. J. WALTER, Member for Lyfrtelton Harbour 'Board for County of Waimairi. COUNCILLOR E. J. HOWARD, Trades and Labour Council. These Gentlemen will, deal with every objection and every bogey raised by vested interest, and show how Canterbury, to be complete, must have— 1. PORT CHRISTCHURCH DEEP AND EFFICIENT. 2. HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD. 3.' MIDLAND RAILWAY AND OTIRA TUNNEL COMPLETED TO CATER FOR THE WEST COAST. FIND A WAY OR MAKE ONE. EVERY ONE IS EITHER A PUSHER OR (PUSHED. THE WORLD ALWAYS LISTENS TO A PROJECT WrTH PROGRESS IK IT. / THEATRE ROYAL. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, at 8 p.m. His Worship the Mayor (Robert Galbraith, Ekq.) will preside. ASHBURTON COUNTY RACING CLUB. AUTUMN MEETING, MARCH'2I AJSTD 22, 1919. ACCEPTANCES for First- Day's Weights, and ENTRIES for the LAGMHOR PLATO close' at 5 p.m. TO-MORROW, March 12. 1919. ALFRED A. FOOKS, 3 261 Secretary. AWELGOMri-HOME SOCIAL will be held in the ELGIN SCHOOL on FRIDAY, March 14, 1919, to welcome home Sergt. W. IDwyer, J. P. McLeod, W. Cairns, G. Morrow, W. Meade, E. J. Protheroe, and ,H. Hyland. .Non-Subscribers, 2s 6d. Ladies, a Basket. 3 256 A WELCOME-HOME Social will be given to Corporal A.. Capon and Privates G. Nicholas and J. E. Thomson, in the Winchmore Hall, on THURSDAY EVENING NEXT, 13th March, 1919, at 8 p.m. Admission — Genis>, 3s; Ladies, a Basket. BUSINESS NOTICES. THE DEAN— Of One of the Largest Universities in the British-speaking World, recently wrote "In some respects there is opportunity for better work in Correspondence Study than in ordinary class. Each Student in a Correspondence School has to study in writing all lessons, whilst in'many class rooms he recites on only about one-thirtieth of the study. Just so, and this is one reason why,' on SEVENTEEN occasions has the coveted First in Order of Mvrit in all New Zealand in the Book-keeping and Accountancy exams, been won by a Student prepared by us. This is why 2,678 have passed the various Accountancy and Book-keeping Exams, under our instruction. •■ May we send you partiou'tan. oi our Course in PRACTICAL MOTWKN ACCOUNTANCY; or iv BOOK-KEEP-MG? Say which. BEMTNdWAY AND ROBERTSON'S CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS, LTD.. AUCKLAND. P.O. Box 516. ' F. J^SUTTQN, T>UILDOKIt AND;■. v pE" v >iiltTX KKR, -' ■, METHV.EN ' 'Phone 79. Box '86.