THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” AUGUST 21, 1907. At the annual meeting of the Ma.uawatu Racing Club, Mr R. S. Abraham bad been re-elected president. Messrs J. 11. P. Strang and D. Buick vice-presidents Mr F .T. Nathan treasurer, and Messrs F. S. Mcßae, S. W. Luxford, 11. R. Cooper and I, A Abraham committeemen. The totalisator’ had handled £76.203 for five days racing in the year. There had been a profit of £79. , L Fat lambs had boon on sale at Addington. the prices ranging from 14s to 15s Bd. Russia bad placed an order worth seven millions in England for the building of battleships, cruisers and gunboats. The township of Woodvillc had become “excited over the advent of a hansom There had boon 400 pupils at the Palmerston North Technical School and 30 different classes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 224, 21 August 1937, Page 2
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138THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 224, 21 August 1937, Page 2
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