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Junction shops. The remarkable thing about each of these photographs is that not a single soul can b e seen in any of them - the streets are utterly deserted! The front page 'story' in that first edition dealt with the dcvelopment of television in the U.K. and its first transmission by the BBC in 1936. (Note: it wasn't until some 25 years later, in the early 60's, that TV came to New Zealand).
became printers o r journalists. Another advertisement, this time on the inside pages, was for "Thompson's Pictures" in both Raetihi and Ohakune. The films being screened that week were: "Deception" with Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains and "Blaze of Noon" with Anne Baxter, Sonny Tufts and William Bendix. Also on the inside pages was the paper's first editorial - a rationale explaining the need for a new community newspaper under the title: "An introduction". In it the paper states that it will "be circulated throughout the Waimarino District and beyond from Raurimu to Hihitahi and National Park, Chateau Tongariro to Pipiriki and O r e Ore." It goes on: "The publication of one newspaper to serve the Borough of Ohakune and Raetihi and the surrounding district has not previously been attempted.
printing trade or in journalism. No doubt these positions were filled but we have no record of the successful applicants nor whether they later "Several newspapers have, within the limited space they could afford, tried to serve as a medium for disseminating district news, but since those newspapers exist primarily to serve other districts, the southern King Country has necessarily had its importance and its interests diminished by appearing almost as an afterthought in the news columns. "The effect of this on the minds of persons not resident in the King Country has been to the serious disadvantage on the area. "Anyone coming to our district from outside to live is treated with deep sympathy by friends... "Within the district, as in all rural areas of New Zealand, there is an urgent need of a means to communicate all the news of events and matters which go to
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 235, 15 March 1988, Page 5
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356CENTRAL DISTRICT PRESS Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 235, 15 March 1988, Page 5
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