"The Rag Planters"
HERE is a romance to be written about the small papers in New Zealand. That was real pioneering when the rag planters-as they were called-hurried along from one new settlement to another with a handpress and a hatful of type and started a paper. In his early days Sir George Fenwick was one of these; after much thought he settled
down in Dunedin. When he found that his paper in Lawrence didn’t pay, he packed up his formes and drove’ through the night to Cromwell, where a few days later he issued the "Cromwell Argus." Joe Ives is said to have started 45 -papers in Australia and New Zealand. His nearest rival was Thomas Elliot Wilson. YT. H. Clavton
was another, and finally there was J. H. Claridge. He is still alive, and so are the eight papers he established. Actually we have over 100 newspapers in New Zealand in addition to the
city dailles.-
(Dr.
G. H.
Scholefield
"Backsround
of New Zealand: The Press,’ 2YA October 7).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 7
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171"The Rag Planters" New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 7
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