THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” NOVEMBER -24, 1907. Twenty-five thousand rivets were to be U6ed in the construction of the Manawatu Gorge bridge. There was a great scarcity of apples locally, tile retail price being 8d a pound. A number of complaints bad been made from time to time of the discoloured state of the borough’s water supply after rains. The historic Pekin Gazette (published daily since A.D. 713) bad ceased to appear. It bad been replaced by a modern newspaper dealing with matters affecting the whole Chinese of the Lord Mayor’s Show in London, bad been an historical pageant of “The Edwards of England.” There had been no colonial features. . . , , _ During 1906, 9684 tourists had passed through the Dominion. At an estimated expenditure by each of £SO, this would have amounted to £484,000 spent in New Zealand. A military tournament held at the Palmerston North Showground had been a pronounced success. The programme had included a display of lance exercises •by the Manawatu Mounted Rifles. -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 2
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167THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 2
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