THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” AUGUST 29, 1908.
Local bodies were agitating for the construction of the Levin-Greatford railway, Foxton residents having joined the campaign and abandoned a project to construct a line to Manawatu Heads. The expedition ship Nimrod was being overhauled at Lyttelton preparatory to returning to the Antarctic in December. Thrushes and blackbirds had wrought so much damage at Foxton that the Mayor (Mr B. Gower) had offered a prize for the boys exhibiting the largest collections of eggs at the local Horticultural Show. Mr J. C. Williamson’s “Humpty Dumpty” company had been scheduled to appear in Palmerston North for two nights. Land values were booming in the Ohakune district, and £6OO had been paid for a quarter-acre section. , There were signs of a complete breakdown in the oats market owing to the absence of demand and a, series of forced sales. It promised to be one of the most disastrous years in the south for 6ome time.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 231, 29 August 1938, Page 2
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162THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 231, 29 August 1938, Page 2
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