ANNIVERSARIES
AUGUST 1 1831 —London Bridge opened. 1834—Negro slavery abolished in British Dominions. 1878—Declaration of Ashburton as a Borough published in the Gazette. 1885—New Zealand Industrial Exhibition opened at Wellington. 1934 —N.Z. Reserve Bank began business. 1941 —Germany declared war on Russia. 1943 —Gold honours badge of the Dominion Federation of Women’s Institutes awarded to Mrs M. Constable. United States tanks cross border of Brittany. 1945 —Pierre Laval captured in Austria.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 248, 1 August 1946, Page 4
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