Horowhenua StarHorowhenua Libraries’ Kiri Pepene has put together a display called “Our lives, our stories, our papers”, which shows the history of newspapers in Horowhenua.
“It’s only a glimpse of what happened in the last 150 years or so,” says Kiri, the library information research and local history team lead. “I need a whole building to do everything. It’s such a wide subject.”
Kiri Pepene at the newspaper display. Photo Janine Baalbergen
The display includes many newspaper pages, but also a few props such as a typewriter.
The Manawatū Herald started in Foxton in 1878. There was also the Horowhenua Chronicle, the Levin Chronicle, the Weekly News, Shannon News, Manawatū Farmer, the Horowhenua Mail and more recently the Horowhenua Star.
The display is open until July 28 at Te Takeretanga o Kura-Hau-pō in Levin, during library hours.
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