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STORM AFFECTS “STAR”.

NO POWER FOR MACHINE. BACK TO OLD METHODS. Owing to the damage caused to transmission lines by the gale) all power was off this morning for a number of hours and it was only with the greatest of difficulty that it was possible to. bring out an issue of the “Thames Star” at all today. The appearance of several different styles of type faces will bring back to old “comps” memories of former days of Thames when the arrival of the “pigeongrams”, as this paper then termed its carrier-pigeon service from Auckland, set all hands hunting for cases containing a sufficiency of type to set up the paper so as to beat its morning ri- ‘ val with the latest quotations of Thames mining scrip upon the Auckland Stock Exchange before the Rotomahana arrived with the Auckland mail. It is, as a matter of fact, quite an achievement to be able to produce any sort of paper at all in the conditions that prevail at the time of writing.

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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17353, 1 May 1928, Page 8

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STORM AFFECTS “STAR”. Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17353, 1 May 1928, Page 8

STORM AFFECTS “STAR”. Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17353, 1 May 1928, Page 8

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