A NEWSPAPER RECORD.
NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 4. The Taranaki Herald to-day celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary of its establishment on August 4th, 1852. It is now the third oldest newspaper in the Dominion, the Lyttelton Times being the oldest and the Otago Witness second. The founder was Mr ' Garland Woon who sold the paper to the late Henry Weston in 1867, on whose death in 1920, it passed into the hands of the present proprietor Mr W r . C. AVeston. Mr AAoon had editorial control until 1867. Since then there have been only two editors, the late Mr AV. H. J. Seffern and the present occupant, Air AV. J. l >enn ’ ln the whole seventy-five years. The paper which lias been daily since 187 1 , has never failed to appear on its due 'date.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1927, Page 3
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133A NEWSPAPER RECORD. Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1927, Page 3
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