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Article: Nelson Mail's old news permanently preserved
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- August 18, 2001
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Nelson's old news is going on to the Internet.
More than 8000 copies of the Nelson Evening Mail, as it was
formerly known, from 1866 to 1900 will go online after the
completion of a project by the National Library of New Zealand and
Nelson's Elma Turner Library.
The website - www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz - is to be officially
launched in Nelson on Monday as part of national library week.
The Nelson newspapers on the website were taken from the Nelson
Provincial Museum's collection.
Museum manager Hubert Klaassens said he was thrilled its most
historic Nelson Evening Mails had been permanently preserved.
He said the public had always been able to view the papers at the
museum, and still ...