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Three suburbs 136
Hospital and old men's home 138
The railways 142
Social and sporting life 148
The closing of the hotel bars 157
Parliamentary representation 160
3 Greater Farming Prosperity, 1903–28 165
The dismemberment of the great estates 165
Land sales and settlement 169
Pastoral runs and sheep farming 174
Agriculture 179
The Farmers’ Union 182
The County Council and improvements to country life 185
Business, mining, dairying 194
Piped water and drainage in the borough 198
Hampstead joins Ashburton 208
Electricity 212
The new Hospital Board and Tuarangi Home 216
Parliamentary representation 222
World War I 226
Social life 230
Sport 244
4 Through Slump and War, 1928–53 247
The depression 247
World War II 252
Improvements in the high country 257
Animal breeding and husbandry 263
A revolution in agriculture 265
Ashburton County Council—irrigation and drainage 270
Business and industry 280
Borough advances 285
The Electric Power Board 296
The Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards 297
The Licensing Trust 301
Parliamentary representation 303
Transport 307
Social life 309
Sport 323
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