TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 1450, 10 March 1931, Page 3

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

DISTRICT HAPPENINGS YOU MAY REMEMBER. EXTRACTS FROM INDEPENDENT. The following extracts are taken from the Waikato Independent of March 10th, 1906: The gate and grandstand Tcccipts at the show totalled for the two days the sum of £l4B 18/6, which is about £7 more than the sum taken last year. The ten motor cars running in a motor reliability trial from. Auckland to Taupo and buck, a distance of 400 miles, arrived at Cambridge last evenin"-. The cars arc divided into three classes, the speeds for which arc: Class A, an average of 10 m.p.h.; Class B, 12 m.p.h., and Class C, 14 m.p.h. The drivers and cars taking part are: Class A: G-. White, 8 h.p. Darracq; G. Hen--niiig, G h.p. Rover; W. Hcnning, steamcar. Class B: W. Luxford, 10 h.p. Cadillac; W. S. Luxford, 10 h.p. Oldsmobilcj D. Crozicr, 10 h.p. Cadillac; J. Moody, 12 h.p. Darracq. Class C: Arthur Clecve, 15 h.p. Darracq. The last census of the Colony taken on March 31, .1901, estimated the population at 772,7.19, exclusive of 43,143 Maoris and the population of Cook Islands 12,292. A plague of white mice is this summer infesting the West Coast of the South Island and the Marlborough Sounds. Fifty per cent of the cocksfoot yield has been lost , this year through the cars being nibbled. In Pelorus -Sound the loss of chaff is almost incredible.