THIRTY YEARS AGO
EXTRACTS FROM “ STANDARD.” JANUARY 15, 1905.
The amount passed through the totalisator at the Pahiatua Racing Club’s meeting had totalled £15,440 as against £12,458 the previous year for the two days of the fixture.
The electric- tramways had commenced running at Caversham, Dunedin, but had to stop on the demand of the Public Works Department because certain formalities had not been complied with. The Loyal Manawatu Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., had total funds amounting to £I9OO, it was reported at the annual meeting. Prices obtained at a stock sale at Wanganui had been the best for fifteen years. Full-mouthed Romney ewes fetched 16s Id and lambs Us.
Maliard ducks, numbering a dozen, were to bo liberated on the Awapuni and Hokowhitu lagoons by the local Acclimatisation Society.
Building sections were in steady demand in Feilding. An acre and a quarter had sold for £SOO.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 40, 15 January 1935, Page 2
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147THIRTY YEARS AGO Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 40, 15 January 1935, Page 2
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