THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” JANUARY 28, 1908.
R. Amst had gone to Wanganui to issue a challenge for the world’s sculling title to the winner of the WebbTresidder match, for which both competitors had been in training. Over 47,000 boxes of New Zealand butter had met with a buoyant market in London and had reached the hitherto untouched price of 138 s per cwt.
The herds on two Midlothian farms, a London cable had stated, bad been ordered to he destroyed on account of foot and mouth disease. They had numbered over 200 cows. Representatives of 25,000 Manchester unemployed had marched to London to present a petition to the King requesting that they be allowed to live on Palace lands. The assassination of the Czar of Bussia had been reported throughout the world, only to be denied the following day. The Palmerston North Borough Council, on the motion of Mr J. A. Nash, had passed a resolution declaring that the Whirokino bridge was unsafe for traffic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 2
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168THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 2
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