THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 241, 10 September 1937, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 10, 1907.

A conference was being held in Welling ton to consider professionalism in sport. The delegates represented 35,000 athletes, the sports being Rugby football, 10,000; cricket, 6000; hockey, 4000; swimming, 3000; lawn tennis, 3000; amateur athletics, 2000 ; rowing, 2000 ; cycling, 1000 ; and boxing, 500. _ :> • At a meeting of the Palmefston North Fire Brigade and the File Police.. Social Clubs, the canvassing committee had announced that subscriptions in aid of furnishing the club with a billiards table were coming in fairly well. A young New Zealand lady, Miss J. A. McKegg, of Henley, had passed the necessary examination and had been granted a certificate of competency as a marine engineer. It was the first instance in which the New Zealand Marine Department had granted the certificate to a woman. A resolution urging uniform books for all schools, to be compiled by the State and sold at cost price, had been passed at a meeting, of the Eltham School Committee.

A statement presented to the Hawke's Bay County Council had shown the total value of land in the Hawke’s Bay County in European occupation to be £5,548.493, an increase of £1,015,383 on the previous year’s figures. This county was now stated to be first in the North Island as regards capital value.