The Wanganui Chronicle is now
available to you in full - online

The Wanganui Chronicle is now available to you in full - online, every day - via a new Digital Subscription service that allows you to read your favourite local newspaper from wherever you are in the world via your computer.

Digital Subscriptions present your daily newspaper in its entirety _ including classified information such as births, deaths and marriages.

While selected stories and photographs are published on the newspaper's website wanganuichronicle. co.nz each day, the Digital Subscription includes every element of the newspaper in an easy to navigate and read format.

The digital version is published at the same time  the newspaper goes to print and every issue is fully searchable.

All stories, photographs and advertisements expand for ease of reading and, if you've missed an issue, no problem _ the digital archive dates back to June 2008.

Digital Subscriptions are a bargain _ with up to 20 per cent off the retail price of the printed newspaper. To receive a free seven-day trial of this new service, subscribe today on 06 349 0712 or  click here 

Happy reading.

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Wanganui Chonicle History:

The Wanganui Chronicle is New Zealand's oldest newspaper, having celebrated 150 years of publishing in September 2006.

Local resident Henry Stokes first proposed the paper for Petre, as the town of Wanganui was called in those days, but initially publication was held back by lack of equipment. Since no printing press was available in the town at the time, Mr. Stokes approached the technical master at Wanganui Collegiate School, Rev. Charles Henry Sinderby Nicholls, and together they constructed a maire wood and iron makeshift printing press, on which, with the help of the staff and pupils of the school, the first edition of the Chronicle was printed on September 18, 1856.

The motto of the paper, printed at the top of the editorial column, was "Verite Sans Peur," French for "Truth without Fear."

Initially the paper was sold fortnightly, at a price of 6d. In 1866 the paper went tri-weekly, and in 1871 the Wanganui Chronicle published daily and has done so ever since.