THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 81, 4 March 1935, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” MARCH 4, 1905.

A total of 398 entries had been received for the firemen’s demonstration at Dunedin. 73 brigades being represented in that number. The Palmerston North brigade was sending a team. Irish blight was doing a great deal of damage to potatoes, in . the South Island. Practically every crop between Waimate and Rangita'a had been affected. A Sydney cablegram said that Dr Denysz had been rdvised from the Pasteur Institute at Paris that diseased rabbits could bo liberated on a large scale to check the rabbit pcet in the Commonwealth. The cooperation of all the htales eas being sought to give the prono-al a trial. The Woods-Williamson Company had drawn a large crowd to the Zealand'a Hall with their presentation, “The Garden of Lies.” Mr C. Woods appeared as Dennin Mallory and Miss Williamson as Princosn Novidina. Sir Joseph Ward had foreshadowed legislation dealing with the registration of music teachers, which he said would bo desirable. Two camps for the Wellington volunteer district were to be hold at Ea6ter, one for the East Coast and the other for the West Coast.