THIRTY YEARS AGO

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 23 December 1932, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” DECEMBER 23, 1902. The balance sheet of the Palmerston North Bowling Green Company showed that the freehold and buildings were valued at £BIO 11s 4d and the new green at £llO 7s 9d. The nominal capital was £6OO and calls paid np totalled £282 18s. The output of the Defiance Creamery Factory, Bunnytliorpe, had been paid for at 9fd per lb of butterfat, the supply being 1300 gallons of milk daily. The death had occurred of Karena Temano Otawhaki, a well-known Maori chief, at Turakina, at the age of 86 years. He served with the British against the Hauhaus and went through the Waikato War. It was reported that the Victorian railway engineers-in-cirief, had been appointed a committee to rexiort on the trans-continental line. The London Times had received from Signor Marconi’s radio station at Glace Bay, Cape Breton, via the station at the Polnhu, Cornwall, the first message embodying Marconi’s greetings to Britain and Italy. The population of London at the latest census was 4,536,063, and that of New York 3,444,675. In 1851 London’s population was 2,362,236.