FIFTY YEARS’ RESIDENCE IN FOXTON.
Wo have received the following letter from Mrs A. M. Hood, of the Avenue, which affords us pleasure in publishing: — “JUBILEE.” “Mr Editor and friends, it may interest. you a little to know that it is fifty years this week since the late Mr Hood and myself landed in Foxlon. \Ve came from England in a sailing vessel and were one hundred days on hoard and landed on Sonnies Island on the Ist May, 1874. A few days afterwards we mine over to Wellington, then on up in the “Manawatu” steamer to Fox ton and landed at the old wharf at the hack of the Family Hotel. I have seen some trying times and many changes. Thanking you, Mr Editor, for granting me this space, —Yours faithfully, A. M. HOOD.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19240517.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2734, 17 May 1924, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
135FIFTY YEARS’ RESIDENCE IN FOXTON. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2734, 17 May 1924, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in