FIFTY YEARS AGO
EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of June 19. ISB3: —- Men are busily engaged putting up the wires and hanging the lamps for the electric lights in the House ot Representatives. An aeronaut, accompanied bv an actress, attempted to cross the Mediterranean in a balloon, but failed, the balloon descending into the sea." lhey were rescued by a passing vessel. A major of the Russian Army, stationed at Moscow, has been banished to Siberia for having publicly expressed an opinion in favour of certain social reforms being necessary in Russia. The Mayor of Berlin acknowledges receipt of 61,000 marks (£'4573) f ron J Australia, in aid of those who suffered by the severe floods which occurred, u tiie Rhenish provinces during las autumn.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21521, 19 June 1933, Page 6
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