LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 160, 19 April 1949, Page 2

LOOKING BACK

FIFTY YEARS SYNE (From the “Guardian,” April 19, 1899). Life in Fiji—The Rev. T. J. Wallis delivered a lantern lecture in the Baring Square Wesleyan Church on Thursday night on “Life'in Fiji.” Mr Wallis was, some yeans ago, the colleague of the Revs. C. H. Standage and D. McNicoll in the Ashburton circuit. During the lecture a small but useful lantern, lent and manipulated by Mr C. Beach, threw a number of pictures on the screen —views of scenery, natives, plantations, and other interesting features of the lecture.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

(From the “Guardian,” April 19, 1924)

Serious Water Shortage—So acute is the water shortage in Ashburton East, which area is mainly dependent on tank supply, that more than one man has found it expedient to send the wife and family away. To borrow was next door to impossible, as practically dvei’yone in the neighbourhood is more or less “in the same boat.” A good rain is urgently needed, and unless a break in the weather is experienced shortly it is hard to say how the people of Ashburton East are going to fare. The entire community will be very pleased when the Borough Council succeeds in raising the loan recently sanctioned to provide their area with a high-pressure service.