LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 28, 14 November 1935, Page 4

LOOKING BACK

' FIFTY YEAR‘S SYNE. .(From the “Guardian,” Nov. 14, 1885.) Cooking by Gas.—-At the annual general meeting ofshareholders in the Ashburton Gas, Coal and Coke Chmpany, held on Thursday, Mr T. Bullock '(the chairman of directors) said that when the price of gas was reduced. the directors 'were in hopes that it would be'generally used for cooking purposes. A great many peeple, however, said they could not aiford to replace their present- cooking stoves by gas ones, and it was now under the consideration of the directors to import a number of gas stores from Home, let them out to all who reguired them,"a.nd ‘ma'ke arrangements for monthly payments. Of course,: this step ivould‘ not "be carried , out unless guarantee .wa-s forthcoming that . a. sufficient, number of stoves would. be required,” : gGas .Company Directors—At the annual general; meeting of the As- , burton Gas, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., Messrs Quill, Shearnian and Rudolph ‘ Friedlander, the, retiring directors, were reelected. Mr George Jameson was re-elected auditor for the ensuing year.. i ‘ ,_ Gift‘ of a -Trout.——~We . have to acknowledge the receipt, with many thanks, of a. fine trout extracted from the Ashburton River by the seductive art of that enthusiastic, fisherman, Mr G. Kidd. _ . ‘ i - W TW‘ENTY-FIVE‘YEARS AGO.'_ " (From the ‘_‘Guardia.n,”'Nov. 'l4, 1905.) Attendance at ’ Metropolitan ‘ Show—'— The attendance. at tliejMet-ropolitan Show at Christchurch yesterday eii- A eeeded all previous records,: and’ the Christchurch “Press’-’ estimates that ,_ over 37,000 p'EOpl'e passed through the ‘ entrance "gates. The same paper puts down the aggregate attendance at the nine place of amusement in the city last evening- as 11,000. ' Guard’s fiifieMatch—At' the Red--cliffs rifle range on Friday morning a match was fired between teams‘ repre senting the City Guardsand the Ashburton Guards. The conditions were 10 aI-s’ide, ten shots eachat 200 and v 500 yards. The local marksmen won, ‘seoring 835 points to their opponents’ ‘ 788. Private Strong led fer the win- ! ners ~'with 94—1—44 and .40, and. Bugler ‘Mchenzi-e for Ashburton with 92—45 and 47. ‘ ..; .. ‘ ‘ ' ‘ Church Debt Eixtinguislied-The IRev. E. Whitehouse‘announced at St. Stephen’s Olfin‘ch on Sunday that the fw'hole- of the debt on the church had been extinguished within a. year. This had- been" the rdsulit 0! the earnest. endeavour of the pop], and next Sun'day- a. thanksgiving service would~bo ment of accounts given out. .. \