THIRTY YEARS AGO

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD” OCTOBER 9, 1903. The enterprise of settlers in the Maharahara district Hawke’s Bay, had been commended in the matter of erecting a telephone line. A former line had been erected between the several homesteads without Government assistance.- It was carried along fenco posts or from stump to stump to suit convenience. Bottles had been requisitioned as insulators. The settlers had met and decided to erect a new line along the roadway stead of over private property. The ninth annual meeting of the Rongotea Dairy Company was presided over by Mr Lasenby. Those elected to fill vacancies on. the board of directors were Messrs H. H. Hunt, V.' C. Ransom and E. A. Buchanan. At the third annual meeting of the Manawatu Cricket Association, Mr G. W. Harden was the chairman. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: Patron, Mr W. T. Wood, M.H.R.; president, Mr F. E. Watson; lion, secretary, Mr T. H. Hay how; lion, treasurer, Mr H. Mowlam; selectors, Messrs Harden, Malcolm and Warden; management committee, Messrs Warden, Harden, Malcolm, J. S. Kelly, Mowlem, and Hayhow. From "October 12 the railway station at the Spit, Napier, was to be called Port Ahuriri.