Back Issues: A man for all seasons
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- Description
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Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan (1908-1984) was imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war coal mining labour camp in Poland 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.
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- Content type
- Born digital
- Relation
- Manawatū Standard
- Date
- August 31, 2024
- Digitisation id
- 2024Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_042494
- Format
- Born Digital
- Held in
- IMCA Digital Archive
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Creation
- Created By
- Murray Brown
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- Copyright
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