The Hawke’s Bay Herald, the oldest journal in Hawke’s Bay, reached its 75th birthday last Saturday. There are only two older newspapers in New Zealand. The Hawke’s Bay Herald has experienced more than the average share of newspaper vicissitudes. It has twice seen the whole of its premises and machinery destroyed by fire, the first being on December 18, 1886, and the second occasion on February 3, 1931, when the earthquake and fire destroyed everything. In 1886 some of the plant and stock of paper was saved and the paper came out as usual on the Monday morning after the fire, not having missed an issue. On February 3, 1931, however, not a scrap of metal or sheet of paper was saved, and it was several days before, with the help of the Hawke’s Bay Tribune, the journal was able to make its appearance.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3428, 4 October 1932, Page 2
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