THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 9 November 1934, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “ STANDARD ”

NOVEMBER 9, 1904. A movement was on foot to establish a relief fund for the fa-irrlies burnt out at Collingwood, where practically the whole town bad been wiped out by fire. It was stated by the Ashhurst correspondent that as the Palmerston North train arrived at 12.10 p.m. and the last train departed at 4 p.m. for Palmerston North a bank was open for business from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. At a meeting of the Forty Milo Bush Fat Sheep Association it bad been decided that a representative should be sent to Wellington to make arrangements for the disposal of tho ecming season’s output. The possibility of securing a higher price by shipping direct to Manchester rather than to London was to be enquired into.

An Ashliurst agent advertised a farm four miles from tho township for lease at 8s 6d an aero, right of purchase at £8 10s an aero, and goodwill £2OOO. The Patcena, which had been employed in tho Tasmanian and Melbourne, trade, was to enter the Wellington, Picton, and Nelson service.