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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 June 1924, Page 3 (Supplement)

The “Herald’s” Weekly. In the later ’seventies the “Timaru Herald” published a weekly paper named the “Geraldine County Chronicle” (Timaru was then surrounded by Geraldine County). The frontispiece of the “Chronicle” is notable, from the fact that it contained a sketch of a breakwater, which in shape and situation is very like the breakwater «hich was afterwards constructed. At the time wntm Mr. M. de H. Duval designed the frontispiece no scheme of harbour 'works had been decided on. Somewhere in the files of the “Chronicle” there exists what was at the time said to be the first photo-print made and printed in New Zealand. Mr. J. B. Lane, the editor, having read in Home papers that prints were being made from photographs, doing away with the toil of engraving, set about the task of devising a .process for producing a photograph which could be printed from. Nothing had been said about processes in the information ho received. After making a great many experiments, Mr Lane produced a positive in high relief. He made a plaster mould of this, and therein cast tvpe-metal. The result was used as a block in a page of the “Chronicle”—a picture of a draught stallion. It was not a success as it appeared in the paper, but a block printer of to-day would have improved it by deepening the “whites.”