CANTERBURY'S FIRST NEWSPAPER
Canteiibury's first newspaper, the Lyttelton Times, was born in a small shed in Norwich Quay, Lyttelton, just 16 years ago. The colonists decided hat they would esta'blish a newspaper n Canterbury before they left Engand and they entrusted Mr. Ingrim Bhrimpton, a printer, of Oxford, with :he task. He risked £2000 of his own ;apital in the venture and shipped the plant, with which the newspaper was irinted for the ffirst four or five /ears, in the Charlotte Jane. The ship arrived at Lyttelton on Deeember 16, 1850, and a little more than three .veeks later the tirst issue was circu'ated in the seaport. fhe staff had been working day and riight for nearly a week. The four outside pages were printed two days before the publication, and the printing of the four inside pages was begun at 5 o'clock on the morning of puhlication, January 11, 1851.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5310, 24 January 1947, Page 2
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151CANTERBURY'S FIRST NEWSPAPER Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5310, 24 January 1947, Page 2
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