ANNIVERSARIES
AUGUST 24 1851 — Discovery of gold in Ballarat. 1857 —Opening of road between Christchurch and Lyttelton via Sumner (cost £38,000). 1924 —British Government resigned, Mr Ramsay MacDonald forming National Government. 1935 —Australian shipping strike ends. 1939 —Mr N. Chamberlain reaffirms British pledge to Poland. International situation deteriorates. .1943 —Naples isolated, railway lines cut. AUGUST 25 1866 —Cook Strait cable completed. 1922 —First crossing of Cook Strait by aeroplane. Captain Euan Dickson flew from Sockburn to Wellington. 1941 — polish and Soviet, troops march into Iran. 1942 — Duke of Kent killed in air crash in Scotland. 1944 —Ashburton Patriotic Committee decided to close Welcome Club, opened in December, 1941.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 268, 24 August 1946, Page 4
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