DISTRICT HISTORY
VALUE OF LOCAL PRESS Speaking at Victoria College recently, Dr. G. H. Scholefield, Parliamentary Librarian, said he felt so strongly the value of the local newspaper as a source of local history that he had been in touch with the Municipal Association to endeavour to persuade local bodies generallv to bind and preserve files of their local papers. It so often happened that a newspaper office was burned down and lost the whole of its back files. It was very rarely that anybody else had preserved a file, and the result was the irretrievable loss of the whole of the local history of the place. This had happened thi ee times in tho last two or three yean''. As country newspapers in anv caie tended to amalgamate or to (lie rut the loss became even more serio* b. He hoped that before long net 'spapers and local bodies would co-<Jperate in tho preservation of complete files apart from the one that was usually kept in the newspaper office, It would be the most effective a'ld ►Tie cheapest means of presevviig the local histoiy of tile district.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 9
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188DISTRICT HISTORY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 9
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