A friend in need...

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 3, 19 June 1984, Page 20

A friend in need...

Last week's edition of the Waimarino Bulletin owes its existence to another community newspaper — the Taumarunui Gazette — and its editor/publisher Mark Ebery. When the Bulletin's computer typesetting machine in Ohakune broke down last Friday week there were several desperate telephone calls to the Auckland agents to find out how we could get the machine started again so that the partially type-set paper could be completed. After carrying out all the agent's phoned instructions to remedy the fault locally it became obvious that the electronic problem was beyond our own resources and the agents decided that a technician would have to be sent to Ohakune to test and repair the equipment ... but no technician was available until the following week!

A hurried call was made, to Mark Ebery at the Taumarunui Gazette who uses the same brand of typesetting machine — an AM Varityper — to see if he could help out. Mark very kindly agreed to let us use his machine on Saturday so our typesetter operator Belinda Stevens travelled to Taumarunui for the day with the editor to complete setting the remaining copy. The Waimarino Bulletin wishes to express its thanks publicly to Mark Ebery for enabling us to maintain our untarnished record of always meeting our publication deadline. (Note: We still had problems last week ... AM's technician didn't arrive in Ohakune until Wednesday afternoon and no typesetting could be started until Thursday morning when the machine was repaired.)