The Southland Daily News
- Centenary Supplement - 16 February 1961
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I have photographed the pages of The Southland Daily News,
printed 16 February 1961.
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p1 - photo whole
page of (I assume) Invercargill
p2 - Radical, Aggressive, The News has tried to express the
personality of the Province -
photo building in Dee
St.
p3 - copy of original page - Saturday February 1861 The
Southern News and Foveaux Straits Herald
p4 - Men of sterling worth alsways at the helm of the newspaper -
for 84 of its 100 years the News has been in family ownership
under Feldwick Bros. then
under Hon. George Jones in
1909 his son Mr Walter
Jones took over from 1911 to 1945 another son Mr Fred Jones is now chairman in
photos - Mr R.M.Hutton, 1945, Mr
W.J.Jones, from
1907, Mr E.J.Abbey Jones
--- Mr J.S.Ferguson, Mr C.F.A.Jones, Mr Fred Jones
p5 - Even in Politics the News was no respecter of party or
persons -
photos - Hon Ralph Hanan, Hon Josiah Alfred Hanan
p6 - They serve the districts of Southland -
photo - The News
buses service formed in 1924
p7 - Debate on immorality -
photo - early Dee st.
p8 - Hotels were hotels back in the very early 1900's -
photo -an early hotel the One Tree
Point Junction Hotel at Kensington, --
p9 - Salvionists had dramatic debut -
photo - Dee st in early
60's - pioneers sweltered in dense bush to build first streets.
p10 - Southland's own currency -
photo - of letter from
Superintendant - advert Southland Building & Investment
Society & Bank of Deposit. 1869 - 1961
p11- Famous soldier's visit to NZ -
photo -Sir Hector Archibald Macdonald & Sir Joseph
Ward. ----
p12 - Congratulations to Southland Daily news on it centenary
- Tasman Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd.
p13 - Parson's wild outburst on the evils of slavery and horse
racing -
2 photos - Post Office
is heart of Invercargill
p14 - Southland Frozen Meat Co. full page ad.
p15 - Southlanders had a thirst after years of prohibition
-
photos - Mr H.Ritchie, Mr G.F.M.Stewart - Licensing
Trust
p16 - Southland's own Bank - full page ad.
p17 - from cannibals to land sharks ----- Early
Southland presented a dreary appearance -
photo - of how Invercargill
looked in the 1860's
p18 - Bank of NZ - ad whole page
p19 - A man with strength ---Worths Circus -
2 photos
- cnr Don st & Dee sts, old and new
p20 - Post Office - ad whole page
p21 - Kew Hospital's stormy beginning
photo - Mr Andrew Bain &
photo of Kew Hospital
p22 - whole page - Purdue
Bros.
p23 - Tram cars moved with progress of Invercargill city -
photo
- Mr W.A.Ott,
p24 - whole page - H & J.Smith Ltd
p25 - H.J.Pither was 1st man to
take to the skies above Southland 1910 -
photo - of plane
p26 - photo - Round Hill sawmill -
advert Frank Holloway & Co Ltd
p27 - Parson's prophesy of NZ in 2010 A.D. is gradually
reaching fulfilment - The Rev P.W.Fairclough
--- said 51 years ago -----
p28 - Early Invercargill -
photos - Dee st in
1883, Esk st in 1884 -
advert - A.C.Millars Ltd.
p29 - Dee st Hotels -
photos - The old Albion
Hotel in the 1880's - The Club
Hotel -
advert
- Alliance Freezing Co.
p30 - Notable sites - photos - old GHS in Conon
st, Queen Victoria Hospital -
advert - William Todd &
Co.
p31- Banks have played a major part -
photos - Bank of
Australisia, in 1884 Bank of NZ
p32 - Our skyline of the future -
photos - sketches
of buildings
p33 - when racegoers revolted -
photo - of horses
p34 - Willie Lincoln chase -
photos of
horses
p35 - National game - photos - 12 August
1939 snowstorm - Southland -Manawatu rugby game held in
snow. -
advert - Wright, Stephenson
& Co.
p36 - underhand business in cricket -
photo - Billy
Trembath -
advert - Charles Begg
& Co. Ltd.
p38 - Motor reliability race in 1909 took over 24hrs
photos - Robert Murie & his
balloon, a line up of de Dion motor cars ----
1910 - E. Hinds
went from Picton - Bluff on his Indian motor cycle
p39 - Homecoming -
photos - Boer war
veterans in 1901 -
advert -
Broad Small Ltd.
p40 - photos of
churches - Boer war veterans guard city
environs
p41 - Premier makes a visit to Southland -
photos - Rt Hon
R.J.Seddon --- advert - Langes
p42 - Filibusters of Southland's Coast ----
photo - Jackie
Price was man of romance --
p43 - Bully Hayes was a pirate as well as a prankster
-
advert Hallensteins
p44 - Finest province in the Country - Northern politicians were
overwhelmed at potential -
photos - elections
p45 - Willie Steel, he gave everybody a laugh -
photo - Willie Steele -
advert - W.Thompson & Co.
p46 - passing years brought changes over city streets -
photos - Esk st 1910 and
1961,
p47 - when Tay st was a sea of mud -
photos - Tay
st -
advert - The National
Bank
p48 - Punishments in Schools have slowly lessened over the years in
Southland - Advice for Women cyclists -
photos -
1st school pupils in Invercargill, The provincial Hotel
in the 1860's
p49 - advert - Abraham
Wachner Ltd. Spey st.
p50 - There was a wild Colonial boy - Ned Kelly -
photos - Ned
Kelly, Constable Lonigan,
Constable Scanlan, Constable McIntyre and Sergeant Kelly -
advert - D.I.C.
p51 - advert - Gormack
Wilkes Davidson - the transport specialists
p52 - Death and destruction came when the Mataura River broke its
banks - rabbits memory of the Past - Funeral
services have kept with the times.
p53 - advert -
W.Gregg & Co. Ltd.
p54 - They guided Southlands destiny -
photo - Messrs J.C.Thomson (Wallace) J.A.Hanan, (Invercargill)
Thos. Mackenzie
(Waikouaiti) W.Fraser
( Wakitipu) J.A.Miller
(Dunedin)
Robert McNabb (Mataura) all members
of the House of Representatives. Sir Joseph Ward at the
wheel -
advert - NZ Express Co.
p55 - advert - The
coalming industry
p56 - In production -
photos - of stages of
producing the paper -
advert - Commercial Cleaning
Service
p57 - In Production - more photos of
stages of producing the paper -
advert - The Ocean
Beach Freezing Co.
p58 - A Right Type of Man -
photos - Mr Connie Casper, Miss Jean Summers, 1st woman
journalist -
advert - P.H.Vickery Ltd.
p59 - Satire on Printing - by
A.R.D.Fairburn, -
photo - 1st press used in The
News 124 pages an hour - more than 150 years
old.
advert - R.Hoe & Crabtree
- London & Leeds
p60 - Blistering attack on Invercargill papers -
photo - Mr J.P.Joyce editor of the
News also MP for Wallace in 1876 and for Awarua in
1881 and 1884 -
advert - I.S.Stephens
p61 - Editors indiscretion led to thrashing -
photo - Mr Fred Joyce son of Mr J.P.Joyce ---
advert - Ferry's Shoe service
p62 - Few comforts given to early prisioners - opening of
Invercargill's new court house in Don st, on 24 February 1942 -
Biggest Gathering of the Legal profession in Southland
photo - Back Row
-
Messrs Guy Caldwell (Public Trust) J.G.Imlay, K.G.Roy,
H.E.Russell, D.I.Macdonald (Gore) E.B.Patrick (Riverton)
J.A.C. Mackenzie (Riverton) E. H.J.Preston,
G.M.Broughton.
Middle Row -
Messrs J.H.B.Scholefield, F.G. O'Beirne, L.F.Moller,
G.J.Reid, G.T. Baylee (Dunedin) B.H.Hewat,
M.H.Mitchel, James Robertson,
H.J.Macalister,
M.M.Macdonald, W.G.Tait, J.C. Prain, O.A. B.Smith,
(Winton) F.G. Hall-Jones, W.B.Johnston, (Gore)
S.M.Macalister, T.V.Mahoney, G.F.Inder (Gore) John
Tait.
Front Row -
Mr J.L.McG.Watson, the Hon. H.G.R.Mason (Minister of Justice) Mr
Justice Kennedy, Messrs N.L.Watson,
Rex C.Abernathy,
(S.M.) G.C.Cruickshank, Eustace Russell.
p63 - In'gill threatened by bubonic plague - and a 7 day working week -
p64 - advert - Thomas
& Beatty Ltd.
Beverley Evans
Christchurch NZ
21 January 2011
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