'Press' introduces change

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 235, 15 March 1988, Page 5

'Press' introduces change

The Central District Press made its first appearance in the Waimarino on Monday, June 14, 1948 when it was launched as a "Souvenir Free Issue". Later copies of this thrice-weekly paper (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) were to cost twopence. Of broadsheet format initially, it was printed and published i n Raetihi for proprietors L.W. Nation Ltd at their registered office in King Street by Edmund Victor Wall of Seddon Street. In terms of appearance it broke tradition with the earlier Waimarino community newspapers - the Waimarino County Call and The Ohakune Times. While the earlier papers had featured nothing but display advertisements on their front covers, the Central District Press introduced headlines, editorial copy and even photographs on its front page. The first i s s u e (pictured) featured three front page photographs: the Raetihi business area, the Ohakune shopping centre and the Ohakune

by

Dennis

Beytagh

Last week in "Our History" we reviewed the Ohakune Times of 1911. The 'Times' disappeared sometime in the 40's to be replaced in 1948 by the Central District Press. Here we review the first issue of that newspaper.

One of the front page advertisements in that newspaper invited a boy and a girl, preferably under 18, to join the staff of the Central District Press with a view to commencing an apprenticeship in the

make up our daily lives. "By distance and by occupations we are a community that is self contained. Our individual interests are not the interests of persons 200 miles away. "The occurrences of our daily lives are of no account to them nor theirs to us. "The small functions, the comings and goings of our neighbours, the sports, the schools, the decisions of our local authorities, all make up a pattem of life peculiar to this district. In time it becomes the history of this district and of each individual in it. "We feel it is worthy of recording and we will endeavour to make that record interesting, accurate and complete." Those sentiments, aims and objectives, though differently expressed, correspond almost exactly with the sentiments, aims and objectives of your current community newspaper, the Waimarino Bulletin.