TO CEASE PUBLICATION
“Temuka Leader” Closes Down
After fifty-five years’ existence, the Temuka, Leader,” the tri-weekly newspaper, will cease publication at the end of February, says the Tetnuka Post.” The decision to close down the paper was made known last Saturday, when members of the staff were verbally notified that their employment would be terminated at the end of next month. Economic conditions, combined with competition from papers ill other centres, have 'combined to clinch the decision to close down the paper. The paper was established as the Temuka Leader and Geraldine Guardian” by Mr. Joseph Ivess in 1877, and was subsequently sold to Mr. Alexander Wilson, who In turn disposed of his interests to Colonel Hayhurst in 1913. On the latter's death the paper passed to his widow, who, though having no interests i;i journalism. carried on until now because jt represented a local industry.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 94, 15 January 1932, Page 18
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146TO CEASE PUBLICATION Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 94, 15 January 1932, Page 18
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