FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
It is estimated that the less to tho trade of Waimate by the bush fire is equal to £I,OOO per month. « « •» » Sir Julius Vogel, in acknowledging receipt of a copy of tho Now Zealand Anthem, write.? to Mr Woods, its composer : “ I think the idea, is excellent of associating our colony in tho minds of the children being educated in this country with a pleasing melody they can never forget, and the remembrance of which will bring before them tho Britain beyond tho seas. ’ * * -if * , It 1b stated that the Government has received information that the big guns for the defence of New Zealand were all shipped last month. «• * ff * Tim Government Is about to call for tenders for the construction of the branch railway to Shag Point. # -Jf vfr During the past five years New Zealand has added 121,676 to her population, or an increase of 42 per cent.; Now South Wales 101,937, or 19 per cent.; Victoria '73,295, or 9 por cent.; Queensland 56,394, or 38 per cent. ; South Australia 38/789, or 20 jjor cent.
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Evening Star, Issue 18140, 2 December 1922, Page 15
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180FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Evening Star, Issue 18140, 2 December 1922, Page 15
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