THIRTY YEARS AGO

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” i APRIL 18, 1904. Street widening in Wellington was stated to have cost £58,982. In Denmark the number of people who could neither read nor write was less than one per cent. The privileges for the “outside” booth at the Manawatu Racing Club’s meeting had been sold for £BO and those for the “inside” booth for £75. The offerings laid on the foundation stone of St. Patrick’s Convent in Broad Street when tho stone was laid amounted to £lls Is. The sum of £25 had also been promised. In a cavity in the stone was laid a bottle containing a number of coins, a documentary record of the proceedings, and a copy of the “Standard.” . The Stortford Lodge saleyards had been opened in Hawke’s Bay by Sir William Russell. . A message from Feilding said that the late Miss Isabella Manson had left bequests totalling over £15,000. Several local and district institutions benefited. The St. Louis Exposition was 1240 acres in extent and the estimated cost of the enterprise was 50,000,000 dollars, exclusive of tho exhibits. Lieutenant E. R. G. R. Evans, a member of Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition, had been mariied at Christchurch to Miss Hilda Russell, of Fendalton.