THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” NOVEMBER 21, 1906. At a meeting of' the subscribers - to the Palmerston -.North town clock and' chimes fund it had been reported that the sum of £343 had been raised, £232 corning from donations. Mementos were to be bought from a balance of £2B and the remainder given to the Palmerston North Band. ■As the receipts for a song'recital'in Palmerston North by Dolores had been insufficient to [ray expenses, the town was not to be visited by Miss Clara Butt in the next year unless a local syndicate would give a guarantee. A cablegram from London staged that Commodore Peary had reached to within 153 miles of the North Pole. A message from London stated that the Daily Mail was offering a prize of £IO,OOO for the first airship to sail from London to Manchester in one day. Santes .Dumont, the inventor, was to bo a competitor.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 304, 21 November 1936, Page 2
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153THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 304, 21 November 1936, Page 2
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