Ōtautau & Districts, Business History - Ōtautau Standard & Wallace County Chronicle plus Ōtautau Standard Printers
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Ōtautau Standard & Wallace County Chronicle plus Ōtautau Standard Printers – Run by John Fisher & later his son Allan Thomson Aorangi Fisher: This pre-printed Christmas Menu Card from 1965, would have been from card stock used by Ōtautau Standard Printers. The Ōtautau Standard & Wallace County Chronicle was a weekly paper started by the owner of the original Winton Record. This was sold to John Fisher later in 1905 and closed in 1946. The Fisher family also operated the Ōtautau Standard Printers from their offices, using the newspaper printing press to create books, stationery, envelopes, a range of cards and other ephemera for the townspeople and others across the wider district. The business was also stockist for other larger printer's special wares. The Ōtautau Standard paper itself, carried advertisements and news stories relating to the whole of the Wallace County District, from Fiordland to Mossburn all the way down to Waimatuku and over to Aparima Riverton and more beyond. This Wallace County District is the main area that our Community Archive Covers. If you want to know more about John Fisher, the owner at that time, a summary of his life can be seen in these community archives under CWA.159.628.033 John Fisher's son, Allan Thomson Aorangi Fisher (or AA Fisher as he liked to be known), who had also served in WW1, enlisted as a clerk in WW2 in 1942, and he was recorded as being a journalist, living at Devon St., Ōtautau. At this stage he was working for his father at the Ōtautau Standard newspaper. After the Newspaper closed after the war, Allan worked as an Accountant, and also as a Clerk for various groups and businesses, like his father John had done before him. Allan Aorangi Fisher, received an OBE in 1964, for services to the community and education, particularly as chairman of the Southland Education Board. His father John was also a Southland Education Board member and as such, found the site for the first Tūātapere schoolhouse, he was also the first Scotts Gap School teacher! So this entry carries a lot of district history with it. When André Bekhuis bought the Ōtautau Standard building after the businesses in it closed and it was left derelict, he was able to save a vast range of old archives and records from it, which we have now digitised. This Christmas Menu is one of the first items in the online catalogue from this collection, along with a few early board mounted photos. More items from this collection are to come online in the New Year, so watch out for fascinating insights into earlier district entities. There will be a lot more photos and information coming in the future on the districts history of Ōtautau Standard business and industry and the Fisher Family itself. In the meantime, it would be wonderful if more people contributed memories, photos and other memorabilia to add about these local industries and the family. If you can help out with this, please comment in the section under here, or contact us.
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Ōtautau & Districts, Business History - Ōtautau Standard & Wallace County Chronicle plus Ōtautau Standard Printers
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Date made
1965
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Waiau District, Tūātapere, Ōtautau, Business & Industry, Christmas, Wallace County, Central & Western Southland, Newspapers & Periodicals, Printing Press, Fisher, John, Fisher, Allan A, Fisher Family, WW1, WW2
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