Como sets April deadline

Press, 4 March 1988, Page 13

Como sets April deadline

The newspaper Como Holdings which plans to produce and circulate through' the West Coast will be oil the streets by the end of JApril, says the company's managing director, Mr Bruce . By establishing a regional newspaper the company hoped to break dow i the parochialism that spi t the three main communit es of Hokitika, Greymouth, and

Westport. Como Holdings owns 75 per cent of the Medialink Group, which in turn owns 95 per cent of the publisher of the "Hokitika Guardian,” Guardian and Times Co,, Ltd.

The paper would be printed, in Hokitika and the plant had already been bought. Sixty per cent of it was second hand, including the press. It would be printed by the offset process.

Five staff had been employed in Greymouth and Westport; and the company’s existing staff in Hokitika would print the paper. Asked !if it would be produced five or six days a week he said he was not certain at this stage. It would circulate through the West Coast, as far north as Westport and possibly to Karamea. But it would not be going to Murchison.