THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1938, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” .JANUARY 21, 1908. Masterton bad shown the way to other towns in the provision of swimming baths, splendid baths having been opened in the AYairarapa town with much ceremony. General Bramwell Booth had. claimed that his. anti-suicide bureau had saved 1500 people frod destruction during 1907. Over 54 per cent, of them had pleaded poverty. During 1907, 142 building permits had been issued at Napier, involving the expenditure of £IOO,OOO. A leading article had advocated the registration of motor-cars. “Regulation of speed,” it had said, “has become an urgent necessity arid if each car were numbered and a record kept there would be no difficulty in identification.” While Sydney had been sweltering in a temperature of 125 degrees, London had experienced 19 degrees of frost. Mark Hambourg, who had been regarded as a coming pianist, had arrived for a tour of New Zealand. There had been a shortage of blacksmiths in Palmerston North. All the smiths’ shops had been working at top pressure. Mr Lethbridge, M.P.. bad offered tbe Government 50 acres of land or £IOOO if it would erect a dairy school in the Feilding district.