THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” FEBRUARY 26, 1908.

At the band contest at New Plymouth, Mr C. Pike, of Palmerston North, had been among the placed competitors in the B flat cornet solo competition. * In the Hawera district a farmer had taken 80 bushels of Russian barley to tho acre off a 12-acre paddock. This was regarded as a record. Japan had declared that she intended to hold China to her pledge not to construct a railway parallel with the existing one of a branch line likely to affect traffic in South Manchuria. The question did not affect the “opendoor” policy, for which Japan stood. By touching an electric button in Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt had officially opened the first two tunnels between Manhatten Island and New Jersey. It had been intended to spend £60,000,000 on further tunnels. The, Government had approved of the Levin Borough ConnciPs application for a loan of £IO,OOO for the erection of gasworks. Owing to the fall in butter prices at Home, several Taranaki dairy companies had refused to meet the market and had deckled to store their supplies throughout the winter.