THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” JANUARY 23, 1909.

The “damaging effect” of moving pictures was asserting itself when a man attired as a cowboy and mounted on a horse galloped into a small town near Auckland and held up the residents at revolver point.

The British Government instituted a reafforestation scheme with a view to finding work for 90.000 unemployed. Tt was anticipated that in 80 years’ time the forests would he worth £71,500,000. Shipments of wool, skins, hemp and tow from the port of Wellington amounted to 218.094 bales for the previous year, which was a record for any port in New Zealand. According to records kept by Dr Martin, the thermometer registered 68 degrees on Anniversary Day in Palmerston North, which was the highest reading during the summer. The average for the previous week was below 60.

Five thousand Socialists in Dresden stormed the King’s Palace and did considerable damage. / Severe fighting between rival factions followed. Entries for t-lic Feilding Show totalled 1120, which was a record.