Found 3 results

Back Issues: Out with typewriters, into the computer age

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of the Manawatū Standard, also known as the Manawatū Evening Standard for many years. Founded by Alexander McMinn in 1880, it started as a one page morning paper. ...

Creator:      Tracey Armstrong
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          December 9, 2023

Pushing out a linotype, big steps since 1903

Machine operators at work in the new typesetting ‘bay’. Donald Leslie Driver is standing (right). This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27th January 1967. On June 30, 1903, when Messrs. H.N....

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 27, 1967

Memory Lane - "Pineapple paradise to Palmerston North Press"

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The life story of Norman Alfred Nash, one of the Nash family members who founded the Manawatū Standard. Includes details of several years that he and his young family s...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          May 15, 2021

Narrow search results