IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1857.—First bank in Otago opened.' 1880. —Strike of telegraph operators • eleven at Dunedin “went out.” 1880.—First special excursion train to Lakes from Dunedin. 1882. Evansdale dairy factory com. menced. 1883. Lyttelton graving dock’ opened. 1905.—Port Arthur, captured by Japan. •’ The municipal motor park at Largs, Scotland, made a profit of £313 last year. The adder, Britain’s only poisonous snake, is found particularly in Hampshire and Sussex. A rose bush is to bo planted on the grave of every French soldier who fell in the Great War. Twenty-eight and a-half inches of rain fell on 141 days in Napier during the year just closed, against 41 points 73 indies on 130 days in the previous year. The average over the past twelve years has been about SOin.
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Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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130IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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