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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3843, 7 December 1936, Page 5

A local resident received a pleasant surprise the other day when inspecting an old volume that was in need of repair. He found that inside.the stiff cover of the book was a muchdiscoloured piece of paper, that on closer inspection proved to be a jialfpage of the “Nottinghamshire Advertiser, Railway Guide, and Advertising Medium for the Town and UQPWy of Nottingham.” The date. is< Tuesday, April Ist, 1851, and the issue was printed and published by G. Batters, 17 Chapel Bar, Nottingham, while the price per copy was one penny. < The front page is confined to .advertisements, and among them are references to leather merchandise, tailoring, dentistry, “metallic pen ink,” neurotonic pills, senna pills and cabinetmaking. The top half of page two is taken up with a railway timetable for the month of April, showing services between Birmingham, Derby, Nottingham to Lincoln: Nottingham to Mansfield; Nottingham to Grantham; and from Ruby to Nottingham, Derby and ihe north. The “scrap of paper” is interesting; but we join with the owner in regrets that the paper was not a complete issue. We could then perhaps have given some informative details of conditions in the Mindlands of England 85 years ago.