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Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan was thrown into a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, he started a weekly newspaper called The Tiki Times. Gallichan produced 25 copies of the newspaper for fellow prisoners as well as an 856-page diary covering his experiences whilst a prisoner-of-war.
Jack Gallichan was a long time member of the Manawatū Cricket Association, serving as its statistician for many years. After the war, he became a newspaper agent for the Southern Cross and the Manawatū Standard.
See also item 2013P_Pi328_006720

Identification

Object type
Image
Content type
Born digital
Relation
Manawatū Standard
Date
April 24, 2010
Digitisation ID
2024Pa_IMCADigitalArchive_042930
Format
Born Digital
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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journalists,
manawatu cricket association,
manawatu standard,
memory lane,
prisoner of war,
soldier,
wwii,
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