LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVIII, Issue 10944, 16 June 1927, Page 6

LOOKING BACK

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. (From the "Guardian," June 17,1902.) Lyndhurst. —The Lyndhurst bachelors held their annual ball on Friday in Mr Drummond's grainshed. Dancing, to the music of Terris's Band, was kept up to a late hour. Mr P. Reddington acted as M.C. Ashburton Live Stock Market. —■ Some of the prices realised at the Tinwald yards are as follow: —Fat cattle: Cows, £5 7s 6d to £6 10s; steers, £4 5s to £5 10s • heifers, £4 5s to £6 ISs 6d. Stores: Daily cows, £3 Bs. Fat Sheep—Crossbred ewes, 8s to 138; maiden ewes, 14s 9d; fat lambs, lis to 12s; stores, 7s lOd; freezing ewes and wethers, 14s 6d to 15s 6d.

Waimakariri Power.—Mr T. E. Taylor, at present in Geneva, has written to the Mayor of Christchurch that he is bringing home a prominent Italian engineer to report on the projected power supply from the Waimakariri. Property Sales. —The following sales have been completed affecting properties in the County:—Lot 11, on D.P. 250, and dwelling at Allenton, on account Mr G. Wannacott; Mr M. Balance's farm in the Forks to Mr Hunt; Mr Walter Wann's farm of 50 acres and dwelling at Hinds to Air W. Frampton. Mount Somers School. —The householders met on Monday evening and elected the following committee: — Messrs Tait (chairman), Harvey. Armstrong, Turton, Bennett, Hutchison, and J. Price, jun., secretary. Where Our Produce Goes. —The following were the shipments of grain and produce from Lyttelton for the week ended Friday last:—To South Africa, 85,279 bags oats; for Australia, 93 sacks barley, 4019 sacks potatoes: for Suva, 5 sacks oats, 245 sacks potatoes; coastwise,/806 sacks wheat, 2175 sacks and 254 bags oats, 10 sacks barley, 125 sacks bran, 270 sacks and 180 bags flour, 5522 sacks potatoes, 210 sacks sharps. Total shipments, 806 sacks wheat, 55.533 bags and 21S0 sacks oats, 103 sacks barley, 125 sacks bran, 270 sacks and 180 bags flour, 9786 sacks potatoes, and 210 sacks sharps.