Weekly Press card Ohinemutu & The Pikau2.jpg
Weekly Press card Ohinemutu & The Pikau2.jpg
ANTARCTIC - NEW ZEALAND POSTCARD SERIES - THE WEEKLY PRESS
I am not an expert on these - Steve McLachlan of Shades Stamps - Christchurch is way far more knowledgeable and an exhibitor, writer, and serious collector on this topic along with NZ Ship postcards (Hopefully one day he will contribute here for others - OR display his collections in digital form as I will show and suggest in a future article (So others may make (download or create) their own reference copies of magnificient collections others have assembled (Before they break them up and sell them for thebig financial gains (OR their families do once they have died - which we see so often these day - eg If you look in the ANTARCTIC ALBUM I have assembled - you will see a numbered collection 480-531 - Well this collection I saw (help mount at a couple of major NZ Exhibitions about 20+ years ago AND really liked - Well this collection was broken up and sold in March 2006 in Australia with it going to all parts of the globe never to be seen together again - a crying shame - They may have reprinted various postcards etc from it - I doubt if they produced a hardback book with the information and details (as displayed in the 64-128 page Ex) Today this can be done digitally like I do in album form - then saved and distributed in a number of different formats to other collectors. Refer to (Watch for my article on this here) Then add your collection here in those forms for others and prosperity. (LOVE to see them saved here)
HISTORY of the THE WEEKLY PRESS
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/Newspapers/History.asp
Weekly Press
1865 F18 - 1928 O24
(Library has: 1866 Ag - 1867 Ja; 1868; 1870-1877; 1879-1880; 1881 Jl - 1888; 1889 Jl -1923; illustrations only 1924-1928 ; microfilm: 1865-1928 Oct)
The Press Co. commenced its weekly in 1865. It was directed at country districts and became very popular, containing sports news, agricultural writing, light reading, and original writing. It later became New Zealand's most popular magazine. The Weekly Press took the initiative in the South Island in illustrating in half tone engravings from 1894 and soon it contained several pages of illustrations of exceptional quality. These illustrations now provide a most important photographic history of the Canterbury area and further afield for the early part of this century. Many photographs in the Library's photograph collection http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Heritage/Photos/ come from the illustrations published in the Weekly Press and Canterbury times.
These are just some postcards I have in my digital image library.
I know there is (And I have written about them else where and have this information also elsewhere - which when I find it - will add to this subject and these postcards)
Number of different Series unknown (But I believe they were done in series for atleast a couple of SPECIAL occassions and sold to their readers)
Information on this is required - Please contribute. Email me at JdPyle@xtra.co.nz
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