THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 77, 28 February 1938, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” FEBRUARY 28, 1908. The Palmerston North Brass Band had had an unpleasant experience at the New Plymouth contest. The living quarters given to them had been unfit for human habitation and they had threatened to return home by the first train. Eventually better quarters were found. Mr John D. Rockefeller had given the Chicago University various benefactions totalling £4,878.000. It had been rumoured that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was to retire from the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain and that Mr Asquith was to succeed him. ! The butter market had collapsed. Best New Zealand had been quoted at 135 s a cwt., and the price had been expected to drop to 120 s. As the result the price of dairy cows had dropped from £7 a month earlier to £2 10s. : A Jackeytown farmer had installed a butter-making plant on his farm to avoid the necessity of carting his milk to the creamery. There had ben 34 patients in the Palmerson North Hospital, admissions during the month being 42.