THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRAFTO from “STANDARD” DECEMBER 19, 1906.
The rector of the Palmerston North High School had stated in his annual report that the school roll was 155. The list of duxes showed that each year a dux boy and a dux girl had been selected. On one Of the slopes outside .Foxton an employee engaged in paddocking flax had worked the words, “Merry Christmas to All,” when laying out the fibre. A decision had been made at New Plymouth to erect a memorial on Marsland Hill to the Imperial and Colonial troops who had fallen in the Maori wars. A French military airship had travelled at 30 miles an hour, against a head wind, with four passengers, ished shrdlu shrdlu shrdl 6hrdlu shrdl
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 19 December 1936, Page 2
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125THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 19 December 1936, Page 2
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