THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM "STANDARD.” JUNE 23, 1907.
Ohakune had become a mushroom township. Over 30 shops had been erected in a few months and more had been ill the course of erection.
Hundreds of Taranaki dairy farmers had visited the Dairy Show in Palmerston North to sec milking machines demonstrated. They had been amazed, it was stated, and not a few machines wore sold. "They are going to revolutionise dairying in tho Colony,” one farmer had remarkod. Protests against excessive land valuations had been made at a meeting of the Levin Farmers' Union. It appeared, Mr J. Saxon had said, that the country would soon be in the position wherein the man who owned least land would be the happiest.
Sir Joseph Ward had returned to New Zealand from the Imperial Conference and had been accorded an enthusiastic welcome. Mr W. T. Wood, M.11.R. for Palmerston, had been a member of the reception committee.
At the Masterton. horse fair good hacks had sold at £ls, while tho best price for draughts had been £25.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 2
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176THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 2
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