THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM ‘'STANDARD." SEPTEMBER 21, 1910. Twenty-one nations were represented at a conference on unemployment at Paris. Excavations on the summit of the Mount of Olives (Jerusalem) had revealed the remains of a memorial church built in 330 A.D. by St. Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome. Published returns showed that in April there were 21,522 sheep-owners in the Dominion. owning 24,269.620 sheep, an increase of 788,913 . sheep on the previous year. Interviewed in London, Lord Brassey said. “We arc. driving direct taxation to breaking’ . point. There ought to be no further increases in income lax f or succession duties.’ - ' ■ Mr ITilaire Belloc, in an article in the Daily Express, said every expert was of opinion that the vulnerability of aeroplanes was insufficient to destroy their efficiency in war. A public meeting at Fcilding approved a proposal to raise a loan of £7500 for * town hall.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 252, 21 September 1940, Page 8
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153THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 252, 21 September 1940, Page 8
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