THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 13, 1910.

The Trans-Atlantiquc Company (Paris) was completing a steamer 686 ft long to run in the passenger trade to New York. It would be fitted with turbines to give a speed of 23? knots. A committee of 100, with Mr Andrew Carnegie as chairman, had arranged for the celebration, in 1914,. of the centenary of tho Treaty of Ghent between Britain and tho United States.

A deputation beaded by Mr J. Corkiil (Mayor of Wairoa) wailed on the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce urging it to push forward the scheme for harnessing Lake Waikaremoana for electric light and power purposes. According to a Baris message M. Lanesau urged that in consequence of Germany’s preparations, the French navy should be concentrated in the North Sea, and not in the Mediterranean, particularly in view of the good understanding with Great Britain. The now Land Bill, at a meeting of the Reform League, in Palmerston North, was roundly condemned, being described , as “ill-considered, unjust and malevolent.”