THIRTY YEARS AGO
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” JANUARY 21, 190 b. The new Palmerston North Post Office had reached an advanced stare or construction and was to be declared open shortly. The carved lion.se at Whakarewarcwa, Rotorua, which had been purchased by a German and shipped to his own country, was to ho replaced. Four carvers had been busy for weeks on the new house. Au up-to-date steam launch was to be built by Levin anti Coy. To work the upper portions of the AJanawatit River. An electric lighting plant installed at New Plymouth, at a cost of £19,000, had been officially opened. The evidence given before the Gorge Bridge Ccmniksion included the statement that 200,000 sheep were brought over the I’ahiatua Track in a season. Following the elections at Home the state of the parties was as follows: — Liberals IS9, Unionists 87, Nationalists 59, Labour 38.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 2
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146THIRTY YEARS AGO Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 2
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