30 Years Service

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 153, 19 September 1927, Page 14

30 Years Service

j SUPREME COURT PRESS | BENCH BEARS NAMES OF j I MEN WHO HAVE MADE | NEWSPAPER HISTORY | ] l . TO BE PRESERVED “The moving finger writes , and having writ -moves on For more than 30 years the newspaper men of Auckland have used the Press bench in the Supreme Court, and to-day it bears the names of many well-known weilders of the pen and pencil, deeply engraved in its face. As solid as the remainder of this historic old building, the bench holds in itself an historic appeal which makes pressmen sorry that it is soon to be replaced by a new bench. Carved on its scarred surface there are the names of men who have won their laurels in the newspaper world, and some, too, of those who died on the battlefields of France and Gallipoli. Some who are still writing for Auckland papers, and others who have gone to other countries have left their mark on this bench. In order that, as part of the original Supreme Court Building, it may be preserved, but more on account of the fact of its association with the pressmen, representations are being made for its presentation to the Auckland Journalists Union to be kept and preserved as a memorial and a reminder of the pressmen who have used it throughout the years.