THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” MARCH 8, 1910. A meeting was bold in Palmerston North to sponsor a visit to the city by the famous Sheffield Festival Choir. The first Home steamer to load from the Napier breakwater, the Wakanwi, had sailed, the occasion being fittingly marked at the Hawke’s Bay port. Mr Harry Rickards’s All-Star Vaudeville Company was appearing in Palmerston North. Socialist crowds were causing trouble in Germany. It was calculated that Lord Kitchener had received more than 200 public addresses during bis tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 85, 8 March 1940, Page 2
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92THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 85, 8 March 1940, Page 2
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