THIRTY YEARS AGO.
“EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD. 1 JANUARY 27, 1908. A property of 5000 acres had been sold in the Wairarapa for £IOO,OOO. At the Pahiatua races the totalisator had handled £6085 compared with £5556 the previous year. The Apiti dairy factory had been destroyed by fire. The Palmerston North Borough Council had decided to pay workmen 10s 6d a day on occasions when they were working on wet grounds; otherwise wages were to be 9s 6d a day. A crop averaging 102 J bushels of oats to the acre had been taken off a Manawatu farm.
The draft of a Bill to he presented to Parliament constituting the Foxton Harbour Board had been approved by a meeting of Foxton citizens. The Foxton Harbour District was to comprise only the Foxton borough. There had keen 80 deaths in a week in London as the result of an influenza epidemic. The birth-rate in the Dominion during 1907 had been 27.31 per 1000 of the mean population, compared with 27.08 the previous year. The death rate had been 10.5 compared with 9.31.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 50, 27 January 1938, Page 2
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180THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 50, 27 January 1938, Page 2
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