* From the editor: 160 years of The Press* The First 16: Christchurch's top influencers* The Press 160th - a timelineFirstly, it runs to more than 1300 words, a tally which would see it take up the full letters page in a current edition of the newspaper. Letters remain an important part of the newspaper now, but noms de plume are no longer a feature of the letters page. A regular column of letters to the editor does not seem to have been an immediate inclusion in the newspaper, though references to information sourced from letters were not uncommon early on. Stuff Gabriel’s Gully, near Lawrence, in Otago, at the height of the Otago Gold Rush. Like this one from September 21, 1861, related to the Otago Gold Rush.

Source: Stuff May 24, 2021 17:01 UTC