THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 256, 26 September 1940, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 26, 1910.

In London borough councils were urging the London County Council to seek powers t.o prevent cinematographs and other shows opening on Sundays. Lord Methvon had completed a tour through the northern part of the Orange Freo State for the purpose of converting the residents to the idea of a unified South African defence force.

It was stated that in the event of coal boring operations at Newman proving successful, a number of Masterton residents intended sinking a bore near the town where the indications were fairly good. Two thousand sailors and firemen had left London to take strikers’ places in Germany. Leach, a Canadian, went through the whirlpool rapids of Niagara .in a barrel, escaping with only a few scratches and bruises. ’

The Queen had expressed her sympathy with the petition of 10,200 cottage women of Great Britain beseeching relief from motor-cars, which, owing to dust and the danger to children, were “making their lives a misery.”