A.D.Willis - Local Printer in Wanganui

A.D.Willis can be found on a number of chromolithograph prints and postcards and appears to have done them not only for himself - but Benoni, Bomfield (prints of his paintings) and many other famous painters etc of those times. Information required.

A.D.Willis used his many skills in producing postcards in a montage form from famous paintings and photographs of his time and these prints and postcards still remain showing those skills.

Chromolithograph by A.D.Willis The Pink Terraces - New Year Postcard

Chromolithograph by A.D.Willis The Pink Terraces - New Year Postcard

Chromolithograph by A.D.Willis The White Terraces - Christmas Postcard

Chromolithograph by A.D.Willis The White Terraces - Christmas Postcard

Postcards as depicted in the book below

Tarawera - The Destruction of the Pink and White Terraces

Tarawera - The Destruction of the Pink and White Terraces
Geoff Conly

Only information found so far is this quote:

Ballance, John 1839 - 1893
Newspaper proprietor and editor, politician, premier

In Wanganui John Ballance opened a shop on Taupo Quay, selling jewellery he had purchased in Australia. The business was neither successful nor something Ballance contemplated pursuing for long. Instead his chosen career was journalism. In 1867 he established the Evening Herald in partnership with local printer A. D. Willis. An able and innovative journalist, Ballance managed and edited the Evening Herald (from 1876 the Wanganui Herald ) and its weekly edition, the Weekly Herald (later the Yeoman ) with considerable success, particularly in the years before the economic downturn of the 1880s.