THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD ” NOVEMBER 1, 1904. Upwards of 150 local business men bad signed a petition to Sir Joseph Ward asking for telephonic communication between Palmerston North and Wellington. A farm of 88 acres in the Pahiatua district was yielding a return of £SOO per annum. Some 15,000 sea run brown trout fry had been liberated . in the Kahutcrawa Stream, Fitzherbert. New Zealand’s, national debt. - was £57,522,215, an increase of £17,795,800 in ten years. Further reports concerning the incident in the North Sea stated that the Russian Baltic fleet had attacked its own torpedoers, believing them to be Japanese. One of the attacked vessels replied to the battleships with quick-firers. Ten sailors of the fleet had boon shot to stop the tendency to desert. A vast revolutionary plot was reported to have been discovered in Finland.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 286, 31 October 1934, Page 2
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139THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 286, 31 October 1934, Page 2
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