THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 14, 1910.
Farmers had written to the Labour Department, Palmerston North, complaining that- they were unable to obtain sufficient farm hands. The department had received 22 applications for such labour in one day. One of the best known institutions in Hawke’s Bay—the Meanee Mission and Seminary—was shortly to be shifted from the spot where it had been situated since 1858.
A London message said that satisfactory results had been achieved by firing howitzers at dummy dirigibles and aeroplanes flown above the scout ship Adventure while steaming to Plymouth at the rate of 18 knots.
Mr Massey, referring to the Parliamentary building scheme, said it came as a great surprise to him that since the lire the Government had spent £27,000 on temporary premises, and they were stiil in those temporary buildings. A Sydney cablegram stated that the Australian and New Zealand fleet had been linked by wireless, establishing communication with every warship on the station, though scattered from the New Hebrides and New Zealand to Adelaide. Messages from the Encounter, in New Zealand, were especially plain.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 14 September 1940, Page 2
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183THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 14 September 1940, Page 2
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