THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 54, 1 February 1938, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” FEBRUARY 1, 1008. The New Zealand professional Rugby team, in their Australian tour, had suffered their heaviest defeat at the hands of Workington, the score being 24 points to 12 A message from Calcutta had stated that Lord Kitchener, under his new organisation scheme, had sent an expedition to exemplarily punish the Zakka Khel Afridis, who had been making constant raids and demoralising the border districts. The steamer Queen of the South had gone ashore at Hartley’s bend in the Alanawatu River. Further shipments of New Zealand butter had been bringing up to 150 s a cwt. on the London market. The Foxton Borough Council had passed a resolution urging the Government to erect a new Post Office in the town. s English suffragettes had held a big demonstration in London. Mrs Patrick Lawrence had presided, ' with Misses Pimkhurst and Kennedy supporting her. Bush fires at Tokomaru had assumed dangerous proportions. Fire-fighters had been at work to save Seifert’s mill and other buildings.