THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” JULY 13, 1906. The Palmerston North Municipal Band had boon dissolved and the instruments returned lo the makers, leaving only one band in (lie town. The French Chamber of Deputies had passed a law stipulating that all employees had to nwive a weekly day of rest. _ Sixtv sections at Waiouru, on the Main Trunk ' Line. 21 miles north of Taihapo, had been offered at. auction, Prices ranging; from £ls to £45 had been paid, mostly bv outside buyers. . More than half of the 50 chains of platforms for the new Dunedin railway station had been built. . . Because storms had hold up shipments of kerosene lo the Cheviot district the lightin" of homes there had become somewhat of a problem for the time being.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 2
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129THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 2
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