THE FATHER OF THE PRESS
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —The contribution of Mr. Fildes has, I think, quite established my statement that Eevans was "the Father of the Press in Wellington," which is all that I claimed for him. I believe he was also the father of the newspaper Press in the whole of New Zealand, and I think it is incontestable that he was the father of journalism in New Zealand. Whether Mr. Wakelin was a trained journalist or not does not affect the question. Revans established and operated the "New Zealand Gazette" for some years, long before Wakelin set foot in the colony. A dentist might be the father of shipbuilding in a country if he happened to build the first ships.
Mr. R, G. "Vile's recollections of Kevans were most interesting. A Wellington resident, Mr. G. E. Humphries, who as a boy lived in Greytown, writes that he remembers Eevans riding up from Woodsida to Greytown almost every day.- On one occasion young Humphries hid behind a gorse bush and frightened the horse, which. , threw its elderly rider to the ground and shook him badly.—l am, etc.,
CONDOR.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 8
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