THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD." SEPTEMBER 16, 1906.

The (lax-mills at Tokonuiru were working full-timo and both creameries were in operation. Tho building trade was brisk and nine new structures were being erected near the railway station. There were two billiard parlours in tho township and a third was being built. S. 11. Gollan (Napier) bad beaten W. T. D. Harman (Christchurch) on the Sl'iirlev links for the golf championship of New Zealand.

Only three applications had been received for 25 fivc-roomcd workers’ dwellings erected'by the Government at Potonc. The routs ranged from 9s 9d to 10s 6d a week. The regulations governing the tenancy of the buildings were to be amended in an effort to improve the demand. In the previous two years 8089 tons of notatoes bad been imported info New Zealand, tho duty amounting to £10,058. Jews were leaving Russia in thousands because of massacres, and their emigration was being freely encouraged. A total of 20,000 bad loft Bielostock: 500 families bad departed from Kieff in a week, and 1600 had ended from Eiba.it in one day.