PEEPS INTO THE PAST

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 79, 6 October 1939, Page 1

PEEPS INTO THE PAST

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE "ELLES-

MERE GUARDIAN"

Saturday; October 6, 1894

Labour Day was to be observed on October 10.

Petitions containing two thousand names obtained in three days, were sent from Auckland to Wellington against the borrowing policy of the Government.

Ellesmere Road Board received numerous applications for new" roads from leaseholders succesful in the ballot for Crown lands at Lake Ellesmere. While the board seemed willing to render them every assistance, the demands were too numerous to allow it to concede them all at once. There was also an application from Leeston residents for the formation of Chervier, Chapman and Carson Streets. A correspondent in one of the North Island county districts testified to the immense benefits the district had received from the establishment of dairy factories. A few years before the time of which he wrote the children, he said, were miserably clad and went for the most part shoeless. Now they all looked meat and comfortable and such a thing as an ill-clad or unshod child was not to be seen.