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The Greymouth Evening Star was one of many newspapers founded on the West Coast during the West Coast gold rush.It is New Zealand's sixth oldest daily newspaper and was founded by James Snyder Browne as a four-page daily on 18 March 1866. [2]
It was then managed by Messrs Langbridge, Silver, E. M. Edgecumbe, George Edgecumbe and J. S. Bond, who ran a book and stationery shop and changed the Times from tri-weekly to a penny daily in 1896, using Press Association news. [6] For 20 years it competed with the Waikato Argus, until the papers merged in 1915. [7]
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The newspaper was a rarity in New Zealand in that it openly declared its left-wing affiliation. The West Coast was a leader in the founding of the labour movement in New Zealand, from its early days as the country's biggest coal mining region to the founding of the New Zealand Labour Party in Blackball in 1916.
The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5] The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world. [4]
Greymouth (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ m aʊ θ /) (Māori: Māwhera) is the largest town in the West Coast region in the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the Grey District Council.The population of the whole Grey District is 14,800, which accounts for 43% of the West Coast's inhabitants.
The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, 46 km (29 mi) northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island following a methane explosion at approximately 3:44 pm (NZDT, UTC+13).
Lahmann was one of the founding members of the Greymouth town improvement committee. [1] He succeeded William Henry Harrison as the representative of the Greymouth riding on the council of Westland County, the predecessor of Westland Province; he represented Greymouth from December 1868 until December 1872. [3]