THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” FEBRUARY 17, 1909.
All volunteers attached to the Palmerston North Guards were urged to attend a special Government parade. Absentees were warned that they would be fined. The New Zealand tennis authorities had intimated to the Australasian Tennis .Association that they intended to secede, having made application to the English Association that they desired to be regarded as a separate nation in the tennis world. Mr Lloyd George, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, intimated that he proposed to raise further money byimposing a super-tax on persons in receint of £3OOO a year and over. The Athenic had arrived at Hobart en route to New Zeeland. It had 677 passengers for the Dominion, most-of them new settlers, and only 26 for Australia.
The <f Manawatu Evening Standard’s” fund for the relief of distress in England, due to unemployment, had reached £O6.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 2
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146THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 2
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