The Mt Benger Mail was one of a number of newspapers, mostly short-lived, which appeared in Central Otago during the gold rush era in the nineteenth century. John Weatherall began the Mt Benger Mail at Roxburgh in 1880. A brief item in the Bruce Herald of 30 April that year announced that the Mt Benger Mail was about to be published ‘at the low price of 3s per quarter’.

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Latest additions to Newspapers (January 2024):

• Dominion (1935-1945)
• Southland Times (1937-1945)