THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” JUNE 6, 1910. A musical festival under the direction of Mr Hugo Gorlitz was to be presented in Palmerston North. A report from Berne stated that the Kossbing mountain, which lost its western face in 1806 when it buried 500 villagers in Goldan, was now threatening to lose its eastern face as the result of .au earthquake. Many villages had been evacuated. Colonel Capper, of the Balloon School at South Farnborougli. had made a secret trip in a new Army dirigible. He steered .bv the stars for St. Paul’s Cathedral, which he reached, and then returned to Farnborongh. Ivins; George V. .had been presented with the baton of Field-Marshal by tlie Field-Marshals of Great Britain. A young man had fallen down a 1900 ft shaft at a Reefton mine, being killed instantly.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 160, 6 June 1940, Page 2
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138THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 160, 6 June 1940, Page 2
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