Newspaper, The Daily Telegraph. Special Buy N.Z. = Goods Number, 1st October 1932.
Maker
Daily Telegraph
Production date
01 Oct 1932
Object detail
Brief Description
This edition of The Daily Telegraph includes a large plan of the proposed new business and shopping area for Napier as part of the reconstruction after the earthquake of 3 February 1931.
A report headed: Building Boom informs about the building boom and construction in Napier with details of work costing £798,988 since the earthquake. It also notes that New Zealand materials have been used where possible. The text shows detailed sums spend on rebuilding.
The front page of the edition has headlines including: Dominions Prosperity Depends on Citizens, Responsibility now on Handicapped Minority and Duty of New Zealanders to Enlist as Industry's Patrons; A New City Rising from the Ruins, with a photograph of Napier's CBD reconstruction; Secondary Industries Requiring Protection, Means of Absorbing Dominions Unemployed, Prime Minister Impressed by Work in New Zealand Factories; Dominions Wealth Publicised, with a photograph of a poster advertising New Zealand. The poster is called Sheep on a Hundred Hills.
Other headlines include: Solution of Unemployed, In Hands of People, Absorbing Boys Leaving School; Benefit to New Zealand Farmers; Railway Junction and Industrial Centre, with a photograph of Palmerston North; New Zealand's Trade Improving, Imports Decline, Growing Demand: Dominion Goods; and New Zealand's Cathedral City, with a photograph of Christchurch Cathedral.
A report headed: Building Boom informs about the building boom and construction in Napier with details of work costing £798,988 since the earthquake. It also notes that New Zealand materials have been used where possible. The text shows detailed sums spend on rebuilding.
The front page of the edition has headlines including: Dominions Prosperity Depends on Citizens, Responsibility now on Handicapped Minority and Duty of New Zealanders to Enlist as Industry's Patrons; A New City Rising from the Ruins, with a photograph of Napier's CBD reconstruction; Secondary Industries Requiring Protection, Means of Absorbing Dominions Unemployed, Prime Minister Impressed by Work in New Zealand Factories; Dominions Wealth Publicised, with a photograph of a poster advertising New Zealand. The poster is called Sheep on a Hundred Hills.
Other headlines include: Solution of Unemployed, In Hands of People, Absorbing Boys Leaving School; Benefit to New Zealand Farmers; Railway Junction and Industrial Centre, with a photograph of Palmerston North; New Zealand's Trade Improving, Imports Decline, Growing Demand: Dominion Goods; and New Zealand's Cathedral City, with a photograph of Christchurch Cathedral.
Production date
01 Oct 1932
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Printed black ink on paper
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 610 x 476mm
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
01 Oct 1932
Credit line
gifted by Mrs L Grant
Other number(s)
m64/17 a, 64266
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