THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 257, 27 September 1935, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 27, 1905. The Miramar Land Compuny had paid two gentlemen in Wellington £23,000 as the balance owing for land purchased, and the company had been bought out by Miramar Limited for £66,000. Each of 16 shareholders in the original company had invested £BOO. They each received £9OO in seven months and at the closo of two years another £SOOO. The twelfth annual report of the Cheltenham Dairy Company had stated that the total amount paid to suppliers in the previous season had been £20,508. The directors had again sold the output for a term of three years. A deputation of Foxton residents had waited on the Wellington Chamber of Commerce urging the desirability of conmooting Foxton with Greatford by rail. The first political conference to bo held in Russia which represented the whole Empire was in session at Moscow, there being 300 delegates present. A deputation from the Palmerston North Hospital Board had waited on the Premier asking for a grant of £ISOO to ca,rry out additions to buildings, 'l’ho Premier said he would refer the matter to Cabinet.

A bright future was predicted for the bee-keeping industry in Now Zealand. The demand on the local markets alone was 600 tons a year. Ironworks rolling mills formerly at hunga, but later at Burnside, _ Dunedin, had boon purchased by a visitor from South Africa and were to be shipped to a point near Johannesburg.