THIRTY YEARS AGO.
MAY 31, 1907. A conference of local body delegates had been held to consider the district hospital estimates which had increased Loin £l9 750 in 1906 to £27,100 in 1907. It was resolved that the Government he approached and asked to make the hospital trustees directly responsible to local bodies, and that the rates he levied on a population basis. . i • i „ i The reading pr.oblcm in Taranaki had been acute, and with much wet weather few roads were passable. . OJd Hoys had defeated Ivia lea at lootball B—3. . . . . , At the Farmers Union interprovincial conference at Levin, Mr J- G. \\ llson (later Sir James) iiad been re-elected president. Mr George Nye had passed away in Palmerston North after living 60 years in the Manawatu. . Owing to the further increase in the price of wheat, flour had advanced to £lO 10s a ton.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 31 May 1937, Page 2
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145THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 31 May 1937, Page 2
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