LOOKING BACK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 28, 13 November 1934, Page 4

LOOKING BACK.

FIFTY YEARS SYNE. (From the "Guardian," Nov. 13, 1884). Freight on Dairy Produce It will be, gratifying to tne farmers and milk suppliers to the Flemington cheese factory to learn that the shipping company has decided to reduce tne ireight on cheese tq London to £4 a ton in a cool chamber and butter to £5 a ton, which will make a difference ot at least a halipennyj a ib on the shipping cost of cheese. It is understood that the directors of the factory intend to give the farmers the full benefit of this reduction. The County Council.—The following letter from ratepayers of the Chertsey district has been received by the Ashburton County Council:—"We, the undersigned ratepayers in the Chertsey district, regret to see the agitation got up against the; County Council, considering the inestimable benefits which have been conferred by the Council on this district and County generally, and we protest against any action being taken which may be the means of curtailing the powers of the Council or preventing the extensive and efficient maintenance of the system of water supply in its entirety. Situated as we are, near the boundaries of there road districts, we are all the more alive to the great disadvantage we should labour under if entirely dependent on small local bodies. And we are of opinion that the more extended and comprehensive the management of works in the County the better it will be for the whole bodvi-of ratepayers in it. (Signed): Roderick Macdonald, Walter "Wilkinson, James Wells, James Patterson, David Todd, Patrick Murphv, George J. Russell, Harry Childs,' Andrew Burke, Samuel, ~N. 'Love, Bryan Connor, James Angus, John Downie, George Murdoch, W. H. Rule, James Copland, Francis Bennison, James Scarlet, Leonard Mangham." ■ ' TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. (From the "Guardian," Nov. 13, 1909. Pigs and Poultry.—Prices at"the weekly sale were as follow:—Poultry: Hens Is 9d to 2s lid, roosters 3s 5d to 4s a pair. Pigs: Weaners 12s, 13s, 14s to 15s, stores 18s 6d, 23s 6d, 25s 6d, 27s to 27s 6d, porkers 31s. Musical Examinations.—The results of the practical examinations held by Mr Henry Siaint-George' in connection with the Ashburton Centre of the Trinity College of Music, London, are as follows:—Sacred Heart School, senior division: Ellen Cullen (associate in violin .playing), passed; senior pianoforte, Kathleen Nealon, passed; junior pianoforte, Margaret Fitzgerald, Gladys Tubbs. Margaret Fouhy, _ all passed; "preparatory pianoforte division, Ellen Small, Alice Burgess, E - leu Hanrahan, Mary O'Sullivan, all passed. Miss Paul's pupils: Preparatory division, Jullica Bonnmgtoii and Ruby Crooks. Miss Ethel Gates's pupils- Preparatory violin, Sarah Bremner'and Reginald Bonmngton . .Miss Claridge's pupils: Preparatory division,, Mona Milner and Lilly Hopkins. : Miss Cullen's pupil- Preparatory violin,. Dorothy Cullen.