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140 years of great moments in history
as reported in The Christchurch Star
- One of New Zealand's oldest newspapers!
9 421016 510528
Sou
venir
Edition
Only
9.9
5in
cGST
$
Please note every effort has been
made to reproduce our historical
pages from the last 140 years to
their original reproduction quality.
Due to various archiving systems
and standards utilised for the
storage of our records, some pages
have variances of quality in
reproduction.
CONTENTS1868 First front page
1869 Front page advertising
1870 Front page advertising
1871 Front page advertising
1872 Front page advertising
1873 Fire destroys Town Hall
1874 Front page advertising
1875 Front page advertising
1876 Front page advertising
1877 Front page advertising
1878 Front page advertising
1879 Sectarian riots in Christchurch
1880 Front page advertising
1881 Parihaka troubles
1882 New Zealand exhibition in Christchurch
1883 Front page advertising
1884 Maori King in London
1885 Front page advertising
1886 Tarawhera erupts
1887 Front page advertising
1888 Front page advertising
1889 Front page advertising
1890 Front page advertising
1891 Front page advertising / news
1892 Explorer Stanley in city
1893 Front page news and literary items
1894 Wairarapa sinks, 121 die
1895 Front page news
1896 Sixty five die in Brunner Mine disaster
1897 Queen Victoria’s Jubilee marked
1898 MP Larnach kills himself at Parliament
1899 Rakaia railway disaster
1900 Canterbury’s Jubilee party
1901 Queen Victoria dies
1902 City celebrates end of
1903 Front page advertisement
1904 Cathedral consecrated
1905 Chaneys fatal rail crash
1906 ‘King Dick’ Seddon dies
1907 Big hills fire above Christchurch
1908 Central city hit by fire
1909 Shackleton returns from ice
1910 Scott leaves for Antarctic
1911 Mayor Tommy Taylor buried
1912 Titanic disaster after liner hits ice berg
1913 Special constables take over in Lyttelton strike
1914 War declared
1915 New Zealanders fight at Gallipoli
1916 Battle of The Somme
1917 New Zealander heroes in France
1918 World War One ends in Armistice
1919 Front page advertising
1920 Front page advertising
1921 Front page advertising
1922 Front page advertising
1923 Otira tunnel opens
1924 Bridge of Remembrance celebrations
1925 Death of Prime Minister Massey
1926 Waimakariri flood swamps North Canterbury
1927 Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic
1928 Kingsford Smith flies into Wigram after Trans Tasman flight
1929 Murchison earthquake rocks South Island
1930 R101 airship disaster kills 46
1931 1500 casualties in Napier earthquake
1932 Tramway strike violence in city
1933 City’s unsolved Riccarton Hotel murder
1934 New Zealand ‘air-minded’ says Kingsford Smith
1935 Nurse Maude dies
1936 King Edward abdicates for love
1937 King George coronation
1938 Chamberlain’s ‘peace in our time’ speech
1939 Empire declares war
1940 HMNZS Achilles heroes home
1941 Crete falls after brave New Zealand stand
1942 Decisive Battle of El Alamein fought in desert
1943 Hyde rail crash
1944 D-Day landings as Allies fight back into Europe
1945 Victory in Europe
1946 Nazis war criminals hanged
1947 City shocked by Ballantynes fire
1948 Seddon rail crash kills six
1949 Berserk gunman shot at Weedons
1950 Canterbury Centennial party celebrations
1951 Watersiders 151-day strike
1952 Yvette Williams wins Olympic gold
1953 Ed Hillary conquers Everest
1954 Queen speaks in Cathedral Square
1955 First Deep Freeze flight from Christchurch
1956 British invade Suez
1957 Four die in Russley air crash
1958 Hillary’s South Pole dash
1959 Coaster Holmglen takes 15 to watery grave
1960 Peter Snell, Murray Halberg run into Olympic Gold history
1961 Russians first in space
1962 Red spy ring smashed in New Zealand
1963 President John F Kennedy assassinated
1964 Olympic gold again for Peter Snell
1965 Paparua prisoners riot
1966 Queen Mother in New Zealand
1967 Strongman Mine disaster on West Coast
1968 Interisland ferry Wahine sinks at Wellington
1969 Man lands on Moon
1970 Tourist Jennifer Beard’s body found near Haast
1971 Biggest rugby test crowd at Lancaster Park
1972 Terrorists kill Israelis at Munich Olympics: Errors in initial claims
1973 Springbok tour cancelled at Government request
1974 Dick Tayler wins Commonwealth gold in city
1975 Big blow causes havoc in Canterbury
1976 Entebbe hijack hostages freed
1977 City hit by big floods
1978 Police, protesters’ confrontation at Bastion Point
1979 DC10 crashes in Erebus disaster
1980 Arthur Allan Thomas gets $1m compensation
1981 Anti-Springbok tour protesters invade Hamilton Rugby field
1982 Dramatic Mt Cook rescue of Inglis and Doole
1983 Oamaru school girl Gloria Kong kidnapped
1984 Mark Todd wins Olympic equestrian gold
1985 Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior sunk by French agents
1986 Space shuttle Challenger blows up on take off
1987 New Zealand wins Rugby World Cup
1988 Paparua prisoners riot again
1989 Two die in Cathedral Square shooting
1990 Aramoana massacre shocks country
1991 Gulf War breaks out
1992 Big snow blankets Christchurch
1993 Mike Moore ousted as Labour leader by Helen Clark
1994 Christchurch Casino opens
1995 Canterbury pride in Americas Cup win
1996 Polar storm chills Christchurch
1997 City’s Showtime party
1998 Canterbury Crusaders rugby team honoured in parade
1999 World’s most powerful leaders in city
2000 Canterbury’s Crusader heroes saluted by community
2001 New York’s 9/11 nightmare as terrorists destroy Twin Towers
2002 Lyttelton marina wrecked again
2003 Eight die in Christchurch air crash
2004 Rod Stewart comes to town
2005 Tragic war time loss recalled
2006 Surburban libraries saved after Star campaign
2007 Star readers say ‘lock up killer’
2008 Son robs banks; mum stunned
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This historical newspaper was published by The Star, part of APN Publishing New Zealand. No part of it can be used again without the prior approval of the publisher. Please contact Peter Hampton at The Star. As some sections of this newspaper are reproduced from very old original sources, the legibility of
some text may be less than optimal.
FEW CHRISTCHURCH companies can boast they were in business within weeks of the First Four Ships anchoring in December 1850. The Star can.
This year The Star celebrated its 140th birthday – and you’re right, 1850 to 2008 is more than 140 years.
A printing press and print workers came out on the Charlotte Jane, and on January 11, 1851 the first issue of the Lyttelton Times appeared – only three weeks after the first pilgrim ship reached Lyttelton.
And the Lyttelton Times was to spawn a feisty, pro-vocative child in the form of The Star.
The owners of the Lyttelton Times, William Reeves, W J W Hamilton, and T W Maude, decided to start an evening newspaper in 1868 (May 14 was the first issue, of four pages) – and it was an instant success.
A fortnight after our start Christchurch was cre-ated a borough and elected its first mayor. And with the opening of the Lyttelton railway tunnel, the museum, the start of construction of the cathedral, the extension of railways north and south, and the abolition of provincial government, plus issues like the absence of proper drains which led to annual outbreaks of typhoid, dysentery, and other diseases in Christchurch, the fledgling paper did not lack issues to tackle.
In its first year The Star was scrapping with its par-ent, expressing misgivings about university scholar-ships that the Times supported, in case they benefited only the sons of the wealthy because of hidden extras.
The Lyttelton Times finally closed in 1935, but The Star survived three major newspaper wars in the city and continued to flourish. We are proud of having the longest newspaper heritage in Canterbury.
Newspaper competition reached its peak at the end of the 20s with the Times and the Press (mornings) and The Star and Sun (evenings) spoiling readers for choice. In 1935 New Zealand Newspapers, the owner of The Star, the Christchurch Times (formerly Lyttelton Times), and the Auckland Star, closed the Times, purchased the goodwill of the Sun, and relaunched The Star as the Star-Sun.
That title was retained until we became The Christchurch Star in 1958 – and our telephonist still gets occasional callers wanting the Star-Sun!
There have been more changes of name. The Christchurch Star in 1958, Christchurch Star in 1970, The Star in 1980, Christchurch Star again in 1989, and in 2005 a reversion to The Star again. We’ve also moved – from Cathedral Square to Kilmore St (where the convention centre now stands) in 1958, and then to Tuam St.
We’ve weathered changes of ownership, world wars (more than 50 Star staff served in World War II), and times of prosperity and depression. But through all those changes one constant has been the paper’s eagerness to fight for its community.
In the past we fought battle after battle to retain open spaces for public use. If you admire Hagley Park, remember that The Star successfully resisted several attempts for the park to be used for other purposes. Once it mustered 600 women for a sit-in on the site of a planned building in the park, to thwart the council.
Back in 1949 The Star was the first paper to object to all-white rugby teams being selected to go to South Africa, and it campaigned successfully to stop live-bird shooting from traps and coursing.
Other community initiatives included introducing the South Island secondary schools art exhibition in 1951, and being the first newspaper in New Zealand with a separate section for teenagers. But The Star has always been a leader in the industry.
It was the first New Zealand paper to introduce news to the front page instead of a dense front page of classified ads (1917), the first to have back page sports news, the first to use wire photos, and the first with RT in the news cars. And when evening news-papers went to the wall one after another, it’s been a unique survivor in a new format as a twice-weekly newspaper since November 1991.
In the daily paper days, evening papers were invariably full of strong-willed and exuberant char-acters in all departments in contrast to their greyer brethren of the morning papers, and The Star was no exception. A book could be written on just the per-sonalities at The Star over the years.
They worked hard and played hard – the old New Albion Tavern flourished for years on custom from around the corner in Kilmore St. But times change in the newspaper world. It’s at least 15 years since the last stand-up fist fight in the newsroom, although with newsrooms overwhelmingly dominated by women now, perhaps it could only be handbags.
Vibrantservant of city and its people
Great moments in history through the pages of The Star
Times change butaim is constant – tobring you the newsWHAT WOULD those pioneering
Canterbury newspaper men of the 1800s think if they were able to see how news and informa-
tion is disseminated in the 21st Century?TV, the internet, mobile phones,
and more technological gadgets on the horizon.
Computerised printing presses that can churn out more than 100,000 copies in three hours. A far cry from the machinery that was brought out on the Charlotte Jane in 1850 to ready the province for the Lyttelton Times, first published in January 1851, from which today’s Star has evolved. But in many ways nothing has really changed.
The public still thirsts for news in the same way it did when those first settlers put down the foundations for our great province, and a computer will never be able to replace the feel of a newspaper.
And The Star’s commitment to serve and do what is right for the people of Christchurch has never faltered over the decades.
So today, The Star is celebrating 140 years of history through its front pages – a snapshot of the events that have shaped our city, our prov-ince, our country and the world.
Special mention for this publication must go to Peter Hampton, a 30-year veteran of The Star, and retired former chief reporter Bob Cotton, who spent 46 years of his life here.
Their passion and commitment to driving and producing Moments in Time underlines everything The Star does and has always stood for. The Star’s commitment to serve and do the best for the people of Christchurch through its many masthead names – Lyttelton Times, Star Sun, Christchurch Star, The Star – has never faltered. It has survived tough economic times, newspaper company wars and changing reader habits, but the philosophy has always remained the same – serve the reader and community, and inform and entertain them.
In 1958 when The Star opened its then new building in Kilmore St (where the Convention
Centre is now sited), a booklet to celebrate said: “Since the beginnings of Canterbury, the Christchurch Star and its predecessors have championed the right of the people to know. Today, it re-dedicates itself to that end. It has
always determined absolute integrity in its news columns; it has always spoken forthrightly for the common good; and its news pages have always been open to those who have a case to argue, as long as that case pertains to the public welfare.”
In 2008, nothing has changed.In the past two-and-a-half years we have
campaigned to keep suburban public libraries open when the city council wanted to close them; we helped find a vicious rapist when police had little to go on; we helped find Feltex workers jobs when their company closed the doors on them; and more recently we helped keep Peter Holdem, killer of schoolgirl Louisa Damodran, in jail.
Why? Because we believe those issues were worth fighting for. And we will continue to find those issues, and seek reader feedback and support to help make change or influence deci-sions… no different to those words uttered 50 years ago – “…as long as that case pertains to the public welfare”.
We will also bring you columns from people who are battling through shocking ordeals like many do in our community.
Trudi Johnston, for example, our courageous Living With a Brain Tumour person, who tragi-cally lost her battle with cancer just over three years ago – a terrible blow for readers and those here at The Star who had so much to do with her. And those who beat adversity, like young breast cancer sufferer Brenna Slee, who wrote a terrific column.
Newspapers have a great future, despite the proliferation of the internet. As long as news-papers continue to produce fair and accurate news columns, entertain readers – and above all continue to challenge and stand up to soci-ety’s decision-makers and campaign vigorously when required for the public.
Sports editor Nick Tolerton, The Star’s longest-serving journalist with 41 years’ service, looks back at the papers’ history.
IT GIVES me great pleasure and pride to see 140 years of The Star’s most newsworthy moments in history published for our readers’ enjoyment. Our 140 years of Moments in Time publication encapsu-lates historic events that have helped shape the world and the cities where we live today.
Reading this publication has brought home to me the many sacrifices which people within our communities have made to ensure we can enjoy the lifestyle and society we have today – benefits we often take for granted. It is humbling to consider these efforts made by so many in the past that have shaped the daily life that my family enjoys today.
I would like to acknowledge all the hard
work and dedication that the team at The Star newspaper has given over that last 140 years to
ensure our readers get the latest news.
It has been the passion and dedication of those people which has ensured our news-paper has connected with its readers and advertisers.
I am also very proud to see the newspaper industry as a whole thriving and remaining vibrant even after 140 years of change.
Nowhere is it more apparent just how much news pages have changed than in this publica-tion.
Thank you for taking the effort to buy this special supplement. I am sure you will find it as fascinating as I have.
Passion behind the paper
BARRY CLARKE Editor In
Chief
STEVE MCCAUGHANGeneral manager,
The Star
Hot off the press: Another edition of The Star about to circulate throughout Christchurch as it has for 140 years. Pictured checking the paper are (from left) Jeff Hofland, Howard Hill, Neil Painter and Jason Laine.
PHOTO: ABBY GILLIES
A big thank-youMoments in Time has been made possible by the fore-thought of those who maintained The Star’s library files – in the form of bound volumes, specially saved pages of significance, microfilm copies and, latterly, computer disks. The Star has also had the co-operation of Christchurch City Libraries, which made available its newspaper microfilm resources in the Central Library’s Aotearoa NZ Centre.
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