THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 22, 1903. At a well attended meeting of residents of the Shannon district it was decided to approach: the Government urging the erection of a bridge at the Shannon ferry. It was stated that the bridge would serve five sawmills and there were five flaxmills with seven strippers working in them. The craft shaped like a barrel, in which a man named Tanner said lie was going to circumnavigate the globe, had been launched at l’arauaki and had come to-grief. T . The New Zealand Farmers’ Union organiser, Mr McCurdy, stated that it "had a membership of 19,800.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 22 September 1933, Page 2
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104THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 22 September 1933, Page 2
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