THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” MARCH 27, 1909.
Terrace End had won the Wednesday cricket championship, defeating Post Office in the final.
The Railway Department had decided to instal a new tablet system on the railway between Wanganui and New Plymouth. Newspapers in Berlin were actively opposing the production in Germany of the play “An Englishman’s Home,'’ which, it was maintained, had definite anti-German tendencies. In 1908 there had been an increase of 21,694 arrivals of persons in Australia compared with 1907. The increase in New Zealand was 11,676. A football club had been formed in Bunnythorpo and it had decided to enter a team in the junior competition.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 2
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