SOME "AUCKLAND STAR" FACTS

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 5

SOME "AUCKLAND STAR" FACTS

The buildings of the "Auckland Star" possess 80,000 square feet of floor space. The Brett Printing and Publishing Company employs 370 people. The daily circulation of the "Star" covers a wide range between the two coast lines of New Zealand, extending on the one hand to North Cape and on the other to Palmerston North and Wanganui. A Saturday's issue contains over 2,000,000 letters. If the whole of the paper used in a Saturday's issue were spread out it would cover in area of 174 acres. A Saturday's publication weighs 20 tons. A linotype contains between 7000 and 8000 parts. The linotype metal used on a Saturday weighs over two tons. The weight of type in one page is about lcwt. The iotary printing machines produce 1350 complete copies of the "Star" per minute. The four rotary machines are capable of printing over 100,000 complete papers in an hour. It takes 15,000 gallons of water daily to cool the automatic casting boxes, the water being kept in circulation and used day after day. There are 12 distinct processes before an item of news comes under the notice of the reader. It has to be written, sub-edited, "set," "read," corrected, "slugged," revised, imposed, stereotyped, printed, published, and delivered. There is an average turnover of one ton per day in the melting of lead, tin, and antimony for the production of the "Star." A fleet of 15 motor vans is needed to deliver the "Star" to distribution points in the city. Sixty two runners and 462 newsboys deliver the "Star" every day in all kinds of weather. If the sheets contained in a Saturday's issue of the "Auckland Star" were placed end on end they would extend from Auckland to Temuka, 10 miles this side of Timaru —a total distance of 726 miles.