THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEAIBER 14, 1902.
The meeting of the Alanawatu Licensing Committee, like that of the Palmerston North Committee, lapsed for want of a quorum, it being reported that it was “becoming quite the custom for meetings of tho Licensing Committee to be adjourned owing to the non-attendance of members.”
Dr. AlcGregor, Inspector-General of Hospitals, reported that the Palmerston North Hospital was most capably managed and a credit to the town. A Sydney message reported that when the vessel Wakatipu was 50 miles south of Cape Everard it experienced a fall ol : chocolate coloured mud which covered it from stem to stern.
The tour of New Zealand by Aliss Nollie Stewart had been abandoned owing to tho death of her father and the critical illness of her mother.
It was officially stated that Johannesburg had been allotted £3,000,000 for compensation after tho Boer War. British subjects, natives and foreigners who. had remained neutral also obtained £2,000,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 244, 14 September 1932, Page 2
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