Wanganui Chronicle

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The Wanganui Chronicle
Type	Daily Newspaper
Format
Owner
Editor	John Maslin
Founded	1856
Headquarters	Wanganui, New Zealand
Website: The Wanganui Chronicle

The Wanganui Chronicle is New Zealand's oldest newspaper based in Wanganui, New Zealand.

[edit] About

The Wanganui Chronicle is New Zealand's oldest newspaper, having celebrated 150 years of publishing in September 2006.

Local resident Henry Stokes first proposed the paper for Petre, as the town of Wanganui was called in those days, but initially publication was held back by lack of equipment. Since no printing press was available in the town at the time, Mr. Stokes approached the technical master at Wanganui Collegiate School, Rev. Charles Henry Sinderby Nicholls, and together they constructed a maire wood and iron makeshift printing press, on which, with the help of the staff and pupils of the school, the first edition of the Chronicle was printed on September 18, 1856.

The motto of the paper, printed at the top of the editorial column, was "Verite Sans Peur," Latin for "Truth without Fear."

Initially the paper was sold fortnightly, at a price of 6d. In 1866 the paper went tri-weekly, and in 1871 the Wanganui Chronicle published daily and has done so ever since.