THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” JULY 17, 1905. Tho Terrace End School Committee had mado arrangements to plant the area about the school tennis court. A donation of 100 ake ake trees bad been received. Expectations lor tho coming seas, lis butter prices were good and a Taranaki company, ‘it was reported, bad refused an offer of 10id a pound for the whole souson’s output. Air T. E. Y. Seddon bad been elected to fill tiic vacancy for tho Westhnd sent in Parliament occasioned by the death of Kt. lion. It. J. Seddon, his father The New Zealand Butter and Cheesemakers’ Association was advocating the inception of a w liter dairy school. _ The South African millionaire, Alfred Beit, had passed away, lie had been a prominent mine-ownor. . Tho schooner Aotea had been wrecked at Waipiro (Gisborno). It was understood that all hands laid been drowned. The New Zealand racehorse Eonette had boon sold in Australia for 450 guineas.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 17 July 1936, Page 2
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159THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 17 July 1936, Page 2
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