THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” MARCH 13, 1905. At a meeting of railway employees at Palmerston North it bad been decided to form a St. John’s Ambulance class. About 50 handed in their names as being willing to undergo a course of training. Captain Scott Harden, a correspondent of the London Graphic and Chronicle, was to lecture in Palmerston North on the Russo-Japanese War. The members of the Woods-Williamson Company were to make their final appearance in Hall Caine’s “The Christian.” The formation of tho team for Bisley was under consideration, a number of men having been asked if they could make the trip, following the conijilction of tho national rifle shooting meeting at Trentham. The Poliangina County Council had been advised by the Department of Roads that there were not sufficient funds in hand to make grants for the construction of the Coal Creek and Iloropeto bridges. The principal contenders in Dominion rowing championship events on the northern end of the Wellington harbour bad been Star (Wellington), Union (Wanganui), Waitcmata, and Petone. Webb (Wanganui) was beaten by Welsh (Akaroa) for the champion sculls. The apple crop in Marlborough was the largest ever known in the district. A great amount was going to waste. because of the lack of a profitable market.