THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” OCTOBER 9,1909. Under an agreement with the Admiralty, it w*as reported that 2000 ratings were to be loaned to the Australian Navy. A missionary who had spent twenty years in China predicted that in fifteen years China’s nplitary system would be sufficiently advanced to defend her against outside Powers. Australia should be able to get the trade for wool for uniforms. The second session of the seventeenth New Zealand Parliament had opened in brilliant weather. The new gold-plated Mace ordered in London by Sir Joseph Ward was borne for the first time.
A rich gold reef was reported to have been opened up at Waipori and was being developed by a syndicate.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 265, 9 October 1939, Page 8
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118THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 265, 9 October 1939, Page 8
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