Whitebaiting
White baiters trying their luck at the mouth of the lake. Now that’s really earning a feed.
Photo courtesy Gordon Wyeth
White baiters trying their luck at the mouth of the lake. Now that’s really earning a feed.
Photo courtesy Gordon Wyeth
Local RWNZ members distributed pink cupcakes on Friday Oct 12 to help promote Breast Cancer Awareness for the month of October. $204.30 was received in donations and this will be passed on to “Sweet Louise Foundation – Helping to improve the quality of life for New Zealanders with secondary breast cancer”. There are currently Wairarapa residents receiving this support.
RWNZ AGM was held on October 25. Officers elected are:
President: Janice Mills, Treasurer: Caroline Ross, Secretaries: Susan Finlayson and Viv Malneek.
We meet on the last Thursday of each month, 6.15pm at Circus Cinema Jellicoe St Martinborough.
New members very welcome.
We love your photos. The adage ‘a picture speaks a thousand words’ is right absolutely right, so keep them coming.
Please send photos straight from your camera or ones which been saved straight to the computer. We have been having one problem with some submitted photos which have been saved to a computer on a ‘Save as’ format which compacts the photo to save on hard drive space. This is done by removing pixels, the photo will still look OK on screen but no longer has enough body to reproduce in news print, even the high quality paper the Star uses.
It is easy to check if your photo is suitable. When you attach the photo the value will be shown. If it is only a few hundred KB , or even less sometimes, it is not suitable. As a rule of thumb a photo has to be about a thousand KB to print up well – good photos can be up to three thousand KB.
Mike
This 1909 copy of the Martinborough Star was found by Council Archivist Gay Reed. The Star was produced Monday, Wednesday and Friday and cost three shillings and six pence a quarter delivered – around 53 cents a copy in today’s terms.
The Star was a double sheet of broadsheet size (I.E. size of the Dominion Post) folded. The front and back was covered by advertisements with news items and further adverts printed inside. News items included stock prices, and council minutes along with births, deaths, engagements and marriages.
The editor would burst forth with a stirring editorial when he considered the subject of importance. Urging the government to break up the then large land holdings, or for residents to campaign for a railway to Featherston, for young men to join up to fight in the first world war, or for funds for a new Town Hall. … Continue Reading
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