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The Chronicle's rival from 1867 onward was The Evening Herald (later The Wanganui Herald), founded by John Ballance. The ownership of the two daily papers merged in the 1970s, and in 1986 the Herald became a free weekly, later renamed the Wanganui Midweek. [1] The Chronicle is currently Whanganui's only daily newspaper.
Wanganui Chronicle; Wanganui Herald; 1890s. Horowhenua Chronicle (1893–2024) Paeroa Gazette [3] The Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser (1901–1936) 1900s. Raglan Chronicle; Rodney Times; 1910s. Industrial Unionist [4] Maoriland Worker, [5] aka the Standard; Northern News; Te Puke Times (1912–2024) 1920s. The Hutt News; 1930s. Manukau ...
The Wanganui Herald, originally published as The Evening Herald, was a daily newspaper in Wanganui published from 1867 to 1986 when it was replaced by a community newspaper of the same name. John Ballance arrived in Wanganui in August 1866; he was to become New Zealand's prime minister in 1891. [ 1 ]
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1848 The Crown purchases Wanganui, 80,000 acres (320 km 2), 8,000 acres (32 km 2) of which are supposed to be set aside as a reserve. 1855 Paiaka settlers move closer to the coast at "Foxton", which becomes a port handling flax, timber and agricultural produce. 1856 The Wanganui Chronicle is first published.
The elevator and tunnel were proposed by Wanganui Chronicle editor John Ball and his friend, Technical School engineering instructor Edward Crow. [3] Ratepayers were not prepared to pay for the project, and only a quarter of the 80 or 90 families buying sections in the new suburb were interested in forming a cooperative, so Col. A. E. Wilson and his brother-in-law W. J. Polson formed the Durie ...
The Whanganui Regional Museum in Whanganui, New Zealand, has an extensive collection of natural and human-history objects.The emphasis is on items from the Manawatū-Whanganui region, but the collection also includes objects of national and international significance, such as Pacific tapa, ceramics from Asia and Cyprus, and moa bones from nearby Makirikiri Swamp.
The Wanganui and Rangitikei cricket clubs played each other regularly in the 1860s. [4] Wanganui achieved a notable success when their team of 22 defeated the touring Australian XI in February 1881 at the Racecourse Ground. [5] The pitch was hard and bumpy, and the Wanganui selectors had made sure they selected the district's best fieldsmen.