FIFTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM THE HERAL.O* The following are extracts from tW New Zealand Herald of Jul? ' 1881 : ~ At a meeting of the Chamber of '® merce yesterday the principal silbjec discussion was the quarantine re Sr. tions. The members were unanimo condemning the present arrangemen s one member, Mr. Dargaville, w °. j the misfortune to have been quara pronounced the present barracks little better than kennels. -joints" We have received several co , m P lf 1 f t j ]6 - respecting the postal arrangemen s Taupo district. It is about the , tha island and was formerly reache mail from Tauranga, via Eotorua, , also from Napier. Now the G a has cut off the mail between Koto^. and Taupo. so that the only c • .£■ tion is by Napier. The efteC .t uc k-. that a letter takes 23 days fro _ land to Taupo. As a mgo t* commerce of the laupo distn •f 3 aNapier, to the loss of Aucklan prirffranga, which have hitherto b t j, e cosfe cipal markets. .We of the mail service weekly bet-wee rua and Taapo was only £W. .'■■'.v:-W
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20925, 15 July 1931, Page 8
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