THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 17 June 1936, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” JUNE 17, 1906. The butter exhibit at the Winter Show in the following week was to bo the largest over seen in New Zealand. There were to bo 198 boxes from 80 factories. The butter was being judged on the group system, under w'hich the average of the points awarded by six graders determined die result. . . The Palmerston North Hospital Board had accepted a tender of .95370 for the erection of n new two-storeyed brick ward. It was to be 100 feet long and 30 feet "two Danish red bulls, the first, of the strain to lie brought to New Zealand, had been imported for a Eeatherston farm. A paragraph noted that rents were high in Waipawa, as 12s 6d was charged for renting a four-roomed cottage." The Duller River had become dammed by a huge slip and grave fears had been held for the snfetv of all in the va lev below Lycll. The obstruction, however, had given way gradually.