LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 243, 26 July 1947, Page 4

LOOKING BACK

FIFTY YEARS SYNE (Frim the “Guardian,” July 26, 1897). Exhilarating Experience—Yesterday morning about 10 o’clock Mr Hardley, ironmonger, had an exhilarating experience.’ As he was driving away from liis. stable his horse bolted and tore down Burnett Street at top speed. Mr Hardley kept the turnout on a straight course and even keel to the Belt, where getting tired of the monotony of the thing, he ran his steed at the opposite brush fence, but the harness parting, the cart was left behind, inverted, and the driver thrown on the road. No damage to speak of was done except to the harness.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO t / ■ (From the “Guardian,” July 26, 1922). Death of Pioneer —One of Ashburton’s earliest pioneers, Mr Francis Thomas Mayo, died at Timaru on Sunday, in his 75th year. Mr Mayo’s father conducted the first school, a private one, in Ashburton for a number of years. Old identities of Ashburton can recall when he bought up a Hampstead block of 100 acres at £5 an acre, he being one of the first to start sales of land outside the Borough. Mr Mayo left Ashburton to take up residence in Tinwald some 20 years ago.