THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” DECEMBER 5, 1902. The new police station at Rongotea had been opened and Constable Breen placed in charge. The Feilding Chamber of Commerce had decided to ask the Marton and AVanganui Chambers to co-operate in a request to the Railway Department that the evening train run from AVellington to AVanganui instead of ending the journey at Palmerston North. Sir Joseph AVard ridiculed a published statement that the health of the Premier (Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon) was not satisfactory. Owing to a short supply of railway waggons, several timber mills in Invercargill had to temporarily close down, the industry being considerably hampered thereby.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 6, 5 December 1932, Page 2
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109THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 6, 5 December 1932, Page 2
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