THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 120, 20 April 1934, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” APRIL 20, 1904. It had been computed that hemp cost £24 a ton to produce, whereas it was worth £23 on the market. In former years it was produced for £lO a ton. Only eight pure-blooded, Morions were left at the Chatham Islands. The youngest was a man of about 20. jt was stated that the State Farm at Levin was costing the country over £2OOO a year. Benefactions by Mr Andrew Carnegie had exceeded £20,000,000, said a message from London. St. Stephen’s Maori Boys’ School, bad been burned down, said an Auckland message. Herr Fricdcnthal had given a pianoforte recital at Palmerston North and had wholly captivated his audience. The total number of the acceptances received for tho two days’ meeting of the Manawatu Racing Club was 34 as against 70 for the same mooting of the previous year. It had been suggested by a person doing a considerable aniont of timber-carting that a tramway bo iaid along tbe road to Fitzherbert instead of carting the timber on the road. The Kairanga County Council, tho governing body, submitted the matter to a sub-committee for a report. Some 26 eases of frozen eels formed an item of tho cargo of a Homo boat sailing from Napier. .' The dairying industry in the Auckland province had developed steadily, the, number of boxes of butter exported being:— 1899, 17,000; 1900, 27,000; 1901, 38,000; 1902, 49,000; 1903, 71,000; 1904, 102,000.