ANNIVERSARIES
MARCH 20 18GG—Opening of road between Christchurch and West Coast (cost £150,000). 1879—Sir George Grey (Premier) delivered policy speech in Ashburton. 193 S Flying Officer A. E. Clouston landed at Blenheim after record flight from England—four days, eight hours. 1942—Japanese begin advance on Port ' Moresby. 1945—Mandalay occupied by British Fourteenth Army. 194G—Ashburton Silver Band won test piece in B Grade championship of Victory Band Contest at Christchurch. MARCH 21 1556—Archbishop Cranmer burned at Oxford. 1765—Colonial Stamp Act passed. 1858—Lucknow fell. 1918—Second battle of Somme. 1944 German occupation of Hungary reported. Finland rejects Russian peace terms. 1945 American Third and Seventh armies overrun Saarbruclcen, Mainz, Worms and Kaiserlautern.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 136, 20 March 1948, Page 4
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