THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM THE “STANDARD."
JULY 17, 1907,
The financial statement of the Pohangina County Council had shown that the rate of lid in the £ had produced £4901. The first importation cf cabbages and cauliflowers had arrived from Victoria, ho shortage of green vegetables in New Zealand had been acute Canada had imported 3000 Japanese labourers to construct the Grand Trunk Pacific railway. , „ . . , , The sheep returns for New Zealand had shown a eolal of 20.816.799, being an increase of 843.821 over the previous year. The sum of £31.286 had been spent hv the Government in tho erection.- of workers’ dwellings. The Taranaki Petroleum Co. had decided to dispose of its surplus oil at 3d a gallon.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 2
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118THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 2
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