FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21068, 30 December 1931, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. FEAT IN FAST TRAVEL. The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of December 30. 1881: An instance of smart travelling is re* corded. Mr. J. A. Petherick left Hawera on Saturday morning and arrived i n Auckland next morning as people w er ® going to church. He spent the best P» t of two days in Auckland and was back in Hawera on Wednesday night. Probably this is the smartest travelling yet don from Hawera to Auckland and back, would certainly be very difficult to bea - A large omnibus, carrying about thre® times as many passengers as the or^ omnibus, has been started by Mr. bro ther on the Parnell route. { - We have been shown a parce.l 01 tj ifP and pears, grown in the Epsom dis.tr* * completely destroyed by the blackbi introduced by that pest importation sociation—the Auckland Acclimat-isa 1 Society. The fruit had been well grown, but were completely destroyed, some them having been almost wholly e a : ,|> United action should be taken by_ al Highways Boards in the colony m c pelling their representatives to secure .. abolition of the Animals Protection > and thus allow the settlers the privi 1 of protecting the crops which their s and industry raise.