THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 13, 190?. A survey of the district at the western side of Palmerston North had shown that there were 151 children of school age in the area. Arrangements as to the jjossiblc purchase of a site for a school were to be discussed later. The fifteenth annual report of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind at Auckland showed that tiie contributions from Palmerston North iiad amounted to £23. An entertainment for those engaged in the Palmerston North district in' work for the local Chinese mission had been attended by 160 persons. A dry season had been a boon to rabbiters in Otago. On one station at Alexandra six men . had taken 100,000 skins in three months, averaging £BO a man. The Bedding Industrial Association was considering tho erection of permanent sheep and cattle pens. The Seddonvillc State coalmine had shown a loss on the year’s working of £6109, butt tho profit on the Point Elizabeth mine, another State undertaking, had been £17,000. A volcano at Savaii, one of tho Pacific Tslaiius. which had been active for sonic time, was still erupting, having ejected millions of tons of matter.