THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 October 1936, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” OCTOBER 6, 1906. A cricket club wth a membership of 40 had been formed by the members of the traffic and locomotive staffs at the Palmerston North station. The State collieries had produced 131,800 tons of coal in the year. The capital outlay had been £69,000 on all the mines and the annual profit £14,000, or Is Id per ton of coal sold. A deputation of seamen had waited on the Minister of Marine asking for amendments to the laws covering New Zealand coastal vessels. More than 50 lives had been lost in coastal disasters in the previous winter. The Miners’ Federation Conference at Swansea had approved of flic Eiglit. Hours Bill as read for the second time in the House of Commons. Mr Philip Snowden, the Labour Commoner, had issued a denial to a statement that his earnings in journalism amounted to £2OOO a year. So rapidly was the use of electricity advancing in America that different concerns were finding it difficult to secure qualified engineers. It was reported that the Cammel-Laird Company were building iron and steel works at Swansea costing £IOO,OOO, which would employ 10,000 operatives.