THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROAI "STANDARD” OCTOBER 30, 1904.
Twelve truck loads of machinery and stock for the Spring Show had arrived in Palmerston North from Dannevirke. Amounts placed on the Estimates included £ISOO for the Palmerston North Post Office, and £430 for the police station. For the year ended March 31, 1904, the expenditure on public works in the colony was £1,790,840. It was proposed to construct a road to connect with the Auckland section of the Main Trunk Line, at its southern terminus with Raetihi, to enable a coach service to bo established and thus provide a connecting link between the northern and southern sections of the line. . . , London messages said that Britain and Russia had referred their Dogger Bank dispute to a Court of Enquiry probably in the terms of Article 9 of the Hague Peace Convention. , . . Tokio reports stated that Old Port Arthur was in flamee. A desperate general attack by the Japanese had silenced the Russian batteries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 2
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162THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 2
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