THIRTY YEARS AGO

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 11, 1903. A dispute was heard by the Manawatu County Council in which tlie driver of a mail coach alleged that the ferryman at the Shannon river crossing had unnecessarily delayed him. The council supported the contention of the ferryman that the mail coach could not claim precedence over a vehicle that had arrived at the crossing before it. During the previous season tlie Levin Dairy Company manufactured 211 tons of butter, 169 tons being sent to London. The latter amount sold at 9£d per pound nett. The number of suppliers was 111. The two brothers. J. Arnst and R. Arnst, had returned to New Zealand after taking part in the big Australian road cycle race from Warnambool to Melbourne. The former had made fastest time and won the race as well, while the latter filled fifth place and made second fastest time.

Reports were being made of the increasing amount of butter being exported from Siberia upon the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway. In the previous nine years the production for export had increased from nothing to embrace a number of districts, being the main source of income for a large number of peasants. What was termed a record price for fat sheep at auction was realised at Masterton when wethers, averaging no more than 551 b. and sold in butchers’ lots, brought 21s 9d per head.