Christchurch Star -
14 May 1968 Centennial Issue
- 1868 - 1968 -
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p1 - The Christchurch Star is 100 today
photos - the buildings
and staff 1868 and 1968
p2 - Centennial message from her Majesty
- The First 100 years - Centenary gift to
the City.
p3 - Early Canterbury and birth of the Lyttelton
Times -
photos - First 4 ships
Farewell breakfst menu to the Canterbury Colonists.
p4 - The First issue of the "Star"
p5 - Fascmile of front page of the first
"Star" Tuesday 14 May 1868
p6 - Technical developments in newspaper production
photos -
Circulation department, turn of the century and today.
p7 - Today and yesterday at the "Star"
photos - 6 of the
interiors of newspaper printing presses
p8 - Editors down through the century.
photos -
Mr William Atack,
Mr Samuel Saunders, Mr H.W.Nixon, Mr A.B.Lane, Mr Andrew Burns, Mr A.G.Henderson, Mr George Burns.
p9 - Long service employees of the "Star"
photos - Roberts,
McGee, Rogers, Burns, Rait, Rees,
Campbell, McNabb, Broadbelt, Taylor,
Tovey, Mallouk, East,
Mair,
McLaren, Whatman, South,
Kearney, Dobier, Curry, Comber, Waldron,
Cullens, Dale, Wright, Whitehead,
Saunders, Warren, Chappell.
p10 - Christchurch in 1868 - Frontier Town had Zest of
Youth - Sydenham Park was 1868 Show Day Venue.
photos - Dr Barker's
house, Worcester st. -
Hereford st, looking west across Colombo st.
p11 - The world in 1868 - The "Star" was born into a world
ripe for change - last public hanging in England 1868
photos - W.G.Grace ---- playing
cricket
30
lost their lives in the Chester and Holyhead railway disaster,
artist drawing
p12 - A century of leading articles
photos - Queen
Victoria, Te Kooti, Richard John Seddon.
p13 - A century of leading articles
photos - Sir Charles
Kingsford Smith,
Quenn Elizabeth 11, Duke of
Windsor,
Sir Winston Churchill
p14 - The City is 100 too. - Star and City both 100 years
old this month - Christchurch was gazetted a Borough on 28 May
1868.
photos
- John Robert Godley,
The old City Hotel in the Triangle of High and Hereford
st. horse drawn vehicles parked outside
p15 - The link with the Antartic.
photos - 1st Stars and
Stripes at the Pole, Rear Admiral George Dufek, Captain
William Hawkes, 1956, Richard Byrd.
Discovery sails
from Lyttelton, Captain
R.F.Scott, well wishers on Lyttelton Harbour
Board tug, left 1 January 1908
p16 - World War 1 in pictures.
photos - 5
- on 25 April, 1915, NZ came of age as a
nation, Men of Anzac landed on a rocky shore ----
p17 - and again 25 years later World War 11 in
pictures.
photos - 6,
NZ soldiers, sailors and airmen were on active service against
the japanese in the Pacific ----
p18 - 100 years of news - City's 1st Mayor
voted in on 10 June 1868 -
photos - William Wilson (1st Mayor of
Christchurch, known as Cabbage Wilson)
Church
of St Michael's Oxford tce, foundation stone laid September
1870
p19 - Opening of Museum was 1870 highlight
photos - entrance to
Museum, porch and entrance were added 12 years later
holiday for 25th
ann in December veterans from 1st 4 ships gather round Godley
statue. 16 December 1871
p20 - The Tailor who began the fight against Fever -
photos - Frederick
Hobbs, 1st chairman of Chch Drainage Board,
for 6s a day workman attacked
earth and stone to prepare for the Chch - Dunedin rail link
Cathedral Square on market day 28 May
1871
p21 - The First win - and last for 89 years - Canterbury beat
Australia 19 Jan.1878
photos - The doctor calls -
Dr J.H.Townend about 1880
Lyttelton in 1882, dredge Erskine ----
p22 - Riot and City's shame -
photos - The Christ's
College First XV 1884
The Ben Venue wreck in 14 May 1882 and the City of Perth,
p23 - Frozen Meat from Belfast - Great experiment begins
- story of neglect of the South Island by Government
photos - John Grigg of
Longbeach (1825-1901) organised the export trade from Lyttelton
ship
Dunedin, which took first cargo of refrigerated mutton to Great
britain in 1882.
Sir
Harry Atkinson ---
September 1885 demo in Cathedral Square to urge action on
Canterbury-West Coast railway ---
p24 - Eventful years for Province's Churches
- The 1888 Quakes -
photos - damaged
Cathedral
1st Roman Catholic
Bishop of Christchurch Most Rev. J.J.Grimes with the Anglican
Bishop Rt, Rev Churchill Julius.
Bishop Harper
was greatly loved.
p25 - Jubilation at First Triumph by Liberals
- a First for the Earl, 1894 opening of
Brighton's Pier, 18 Jan. 1894 - Women's vote -
photos - John
Ballance the new Prime Minister
Dick Seddon deals
with an interjector ------
A bicycle band, organised
by Mr F.W.Painter in 1893 it ranged as far afield as Kaiapoi and
Amberley playing as it went.
p26 - The Worst winter for 30 years -
June & July 1895 - Ideal for teennis
- Mine disaster - Brunner mine -----
photo - 1890's flying squad
----
p27 - a War, a Coronation and Pensions made headlines -
photos
- 1899 a balloon took off from Lancaster Park. flight
ended in disaster
balloonist Captain Lorraine was never seen again
Cave Rock, Sumner
p28 - Enthusiastic Celebrations marked 1st Fifty years
photos - Beauty
on the River (Antigua boatsheds)
The
entrance to the old railway station in 1901 for the visit
of Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary)
p29 - Amalagamation calls - International
Exhibition at Hagley Park - city got high pressure
water in June 1909
photos - exhibition
building 1906-07
a
horse team on the New Brighton bridge.
p30 - Fireman's After Dinner Call biggest in City's history
- 6 February 1908 - Adventerous car trip and a
tunnel is started
photos
- Strange's fire at its height - in
Lichfield st
28
November 1908 Sir Charles Bowen turned the 1st sod on the Summit
Road --- Mr George Laurenson & Sir Charles Bowen
p31 - Hectic Itinerary for Hero of Khartoum - Field Marshal Lord
Kitchener visited Christchurch in February 1910 - Davis Cup
Final -
photo - Davis Cup final,
Jan. 1912, Christchurch hosted at Lancaster Park
p32 - The War - Touch of Romance in Sad
World - Historic Flight - 19 June
1917, Sir Henry Wigram a passenger, pilot Mr C.M.Hill
=
photos - Captain Von
Luckner, - scow "Moa"
Picture painted by Mr Maurice Conly of the historic flight
of Hill and Wigram
p33 - Armistice Day - City Rejoices
- 14 May 1920 Prince of Wales in
Christchurch - Otira tunnel opened -
Council bought Elmwood Park
photos - crowd celebrating Armistice day
Prince of Wales with a Maori war veteran
during his NZ visit in 1920
p34 - The Day a Super "Bumper" rocked the MCC tourists
- Xmas Day 1922 - Ripple and the Radio
Crusade -
photos - 3 bathing
beauties on Caroline Bay
the
opening of the Otira tunnel 1823
Dr
H.T.J.Thacker immediate past Mayor of Christchurch
p35 - 75th Anniversary: resolve to do
better - 37 venerable survivors from the 1st
four ships several over 90 years old
A Royal Disappointment - 2 visits
to Chch by the Queen Mother --------
photos - A bullock
waggon passes a tram as the ann. procession of 1925 passes through
Cathedral Square
Duke
and Duchess of York
p36 - Smithy had made it - and what a crush
- Charles Kingsford Smith - 11 September 1928
Election
sensation -
photos
- Sir Joseph Ward the crowd greeting the Southern Cross
Murchison Earthquake - June 1929
p37 - Economic gloom - general wages cut
- 1931 - Phar Lap - 1st Woman MP
photos - Mrs Elizabeth
McCombs
7 January 1931 an Australian landed upside
down in a swamp near Hari Hari, 22 yr old Guy Menzies
p38 - memorable visit by a Mischievous G.B.S., Professor
(later Sir James) Shelley - George Bernard Shaw was here
Labour's great win and hopes -
photo -
NZ's 1st Labour Cabinet 1935, Semple,
Armstrong, Jones, Sullivan, Webb, Fagan, Mason,
Nash, Parry, Langstone, Savage,
Martin, Fraser.
p39 - In the shadows of war -
Social Security introduced - 1940 Michael Joseph Savage
died
photos - Pearl
Harbour -
Home guardsmaen
were training in 1941 ---
p40 - 1942 - a Dismal beginning but the Tide was to
Turn - A Year full of promise -
photos - streets
in the city choked with people 14 August 1945
Marshall Stalin,
Sir Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt at Teheran in 1944
King George
V1 pauses to chat with Captain C.H.Upham --- in 1946
p41 - 1945 - Record snowfall -
April, Glenelg was opened - Mabel Howard
- Sumner joined the City -
photos -
Ballantyne's fire - Miss Mabel
Howard -
p42 - Prince Charles born - Worry
over King's health - Mr Holland wins
election - Canterbury celebrates centenary
-
photos - Roger Bannister
- Sir Sidney Holland -
6 killed and
37 injured when the Picton - Chch express was derailed near
Seddon, 25 February 1948
p43 - Thousands walk in steps of Pioneers
- Strike of 1951 - NZ Rail
disaster, Whangaehu River 151 people died -
6 February 1952 King
George died
photos - Whangaehu
River,
p44 - Meters in the streets - May 1955,
meters made their appearance -
photos -
Dedication of Christchurch International Airport, the Mayor
George Manning addresses guests
- Frederick Cassin and Charles Jacobsen found uranium
in wild country near the Buller Gorge
- Sir Walter Nash,
The Hon. A.H.Nordmeyer
p45 - Hillary in the News again - Hell bent for the Pole
- in the Star - 4 January 1958
photos - 3 leaders of
Antartic expeditions meet at the South Pole in 1958, they were
Rear-Admiral George Dufek (31
October 1956) Sir Edmund Hillary (4 January) Dr Vivian
Fuchs on 20 January
Peter Snell to victory in the
1500 m. at the Tokyo Olympics
p46 - A glorius summer and 2 tough winters
- 1962 warmest, 1963 and 1965 the coldest
for 20 years
photos - 30,000
children gave the Queen and her husband a welcome at Lancaster
Park February 1963
- Bob Charles and Phil
Rogers tied in the 1963 British Open
- February 1964 road
tunnel opened Mrs R.A.Witbrock collects the 1st toll
p47 - A new leader - and a great man
dies - Norman Kirk defeated mr Nordmeyer 1965
photos
- 1st chch Pan-Pacific Arts festival March 1965
- A Royal visit - Queen Mother bids farewell
to Rt Rev. A.K.Warren
p48 - Times have changed since 1868, copies of
the "Star" being loaded into the NAC Viscount at the airport.
Beverley Evans
Christchurch NZ
7 February 2011
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