Meat on display at Barton and Trengrove butchery, Manse St, Dunedin. — Otago Witness, 1.7.
1924 Sales continually increasing, an all-sufficient advertisement — Manse street (and all branches). Rails extend up valley The local Public Works Department has a large number of men employed in Otago at the present time. Some 205 men are working on the Beaumont-Miller's Flat railway, engaged in earthwork, ballasting, the erection of bridges, fencing etc.
It is expected that this line will he open for traffic by next September, in time to carry the fruit from the district to Dunedin. The rails have now been laid within three miles of Miller’s Flat. Debtor loses suit A defendant who was proceeded against on a judgment summons at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday made a vigorous protest against paying the amount claimed.
He asserted that he was a man with a family of 13, and was quite able to meet his engagements. The claim, he said, was of two years’ standing, but he had known nothing about it till three or four weeks ago. It was a question of living within his means, and if this sort of thing went on he would be in the Bankruptcy Court.
He worked away from home during the week and came home on Saturday, and left again for work on Sunday. "It is not fair", he said, "for a man to come to my door and wheedle my wife into buying things. The articles were not required .
.. I never knew these things were not paid for.
This is what I am up against, and I am determined to put a stop to.
