PEEPS INTO THE PAST
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM THE "ELLES-
MERE GUARDIAN."
Wednesday, March 28, 189*
A football match at Southbridge between the local and the Rakaia teams resulted in a win for the visitors. * ♦ The number of men employed on co-operative works in New Zealand was 2062. A twenty-five per cent, reduction of this number was announced. * ♦ The voting in the Ellesmere electorate on the licensing issue resulted:—For licenses to remain unaltered 355, for reduction 139, for abolition 373. * ♦ ! The purchase of 156,000 acres in the King Country, by the Seddon Government, was announced. ♦ * ' Efforts were being made in France to resuscitate the Panama Canal operations. The sum of fifteen million francs had been subscribed and the great financial houses of Paris were being urged to assist. ♦ * A well-known New Zealand .scientist suggested allowing a few acres of wheat to be thoroughly infested I with the hessian fly and then set fire to. Thus, he thought, the pest could be easily exterminated.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 24, 28 March 1939, Page 8
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