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Events in 1870-71 led Otago Daily Times editor George Barton to claim in his newspaper that the government had been intercepting telegraphs for political gain.
Geoffrey Cox in 1932, the year he left New Zealand for Britain on a Rhodes Scholarship.
A media scrum awaited The Beatles shortly after their arrival in Wellington on 21 June 1964.
Hear the poem 'Breach of privilege' about tensions between Parliament and journalists in 1898.
Hear the poem 'The gallery boys', about the press gallery in the 1890s.
The press gallery above the Speaker's chair, 1906
Panorama of the galleries of the debating chamber of the House of Representatives. Includes commentary by John O'Sullivan, former General Manager of the Parliamentary Service
Front page of the Crete News paper written by New Zealand journalist Geoffrey Cox, 24 May 1941. Only four issues were published before the island's printing press was destroyed during an air attack.