THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 28, 1905. Five New Zealand players in tlie Rugby team at Home bad competed with some success at a swimming carnival at Eomsey. There wore 80 miles of streets in Palmerston North. A man in Australia had boon sentenced to live ycare’ imprisonment for obtaining £SOO by the false drawing of a lottery. A special receptacle bad been provided in a box by means of which the marbles wore drawn. One hundred and sixty horses. bad been purchased in the Cambridge district for the Indian market. A deputation had waited on the Premier requesting a grant to meet half tlio cost of rebuilding die. Foxton School. Best bullocks had sold at Johnsonville for £lO and others at £9 7s 6d and £9 15s. Prime wethers reached 27s Id, and 25s Id.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 258, 28 September 1935, Page 2
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138THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 258, 28 September 1935, Page 2
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