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3 unusual facts about Wanganui Chronicle


Arthur Wallis Mills

(Edith Margaret Garrud) By Arthur Wallis Mills, originally published 1910 for Punch Magazine and The Wanganui Chronicle.

Wanganui Chronicle

As no printing press was available, Stokes approached the technical master at Wanganui Collegiate School, Rev Charles Nicholls, and together they constructed a maire wood and iron makeshift printing press, on which, with the help of the staff and pupils of the school, the first edition of the Chronicle was printed on 18 September 1856.

Initially the paper was sold fortnightly, at a price of six pence.



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