{"id":230,"date":"2017-06-07T12:34:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2024-05-05T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:06:10","slug":"wairoa-star-1968","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wairoa-star-scrap\/wairoa-star-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Wairoa Star, 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Graeme How for sending in these photos.<\/p>\n<p>We have five pages of articles about the Wairoa Star sent in by Graeme, check the &#8220;Related Pages&#8221; menu to see the others.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/82.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/82.jpg\" alt=\"Cossar Press\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wairoa Star&#8217;s (New Zealand) Cossar B16 Flatbed reel fed Printing Press could print up to sixteen tabloid pages in one print run and with the rewind section another eight pages could be added. The press was retired in 1976 when the Wairoa Star changed to offset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/83.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/83.jpg\" alt=\"Linotype operators\" width=\"450\" height=\"668\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operators busy setting type for another edition of the Wairoa Star (New Zealand) are from foreground Kingi Te Amo, Dick Carroll and Jack Burnett. 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