THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.:” FEBRUARY 18, 1909. At the Woodville races the totalisator handled £7430, compared with £8754 the previous year. There were eight bookmakers operating at the The Governor was invited to lay the foundation stone of t-lie new 'Wanganui College, which was to cost £30.000. Over 30,000 unemployed women had formed a' procession and marched through the streets of London. The population of Sydney was set down at 592,100. In a colliery disaster in Durham 147 men were entombed. . . . . The matron reported that there were 37 patients in the Palmerston North Hospital. The Department of Health advised the Hospital Board that £2OOO had.been allocated for the erection of an extra ward.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 2
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