THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “ STANDARD.” NOVEMBER 23, 1904.
Extensive alterations had been carried out at the Woodville Racing Club’s course, including the shifting of the stand Back so that the middle of the track fell where the stand used to be. The Auckland Harbour Board had accepted a tender of £43,000 for the erection of the railway wharf in ferro concrete. Great distress prevailed in Ireland owing to the failure of the potato crops on the west coast, the season being the worst since 1879, said a London cable.
London messages recounted the adventures of an Englishman who purchased a turbine torpedoer under tho pretext of going on a yachting cruise and had proceeded to Libau. The ship was eventually sold to the Russian authorities. The Town Hall, Wellington, was nearing completion, having cost to that time £57,000. It was expected that it would be next to the Sydney Town Hall in the ranking of town halls in the colonies. .
A Sydney message said swarms of grasshoppers were destroyig crops in several districts.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 306, 23 November 1934, Page 2
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174THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 306, 23 November 1934, Page 2
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