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Philip Matthews05:00, May 25 2021 Press Archives/Stuff The original offices of The Press newspaper. Some trees and hedges would be welcome. Every newspaper is a time capsule, a small parcel of history recorded in real time. News stories and editorials tell us much about events and attitudes, but what do the advertisements tell us? They also reveal surprising things about the Christchurch of the past. Christchurch was just a decade old when The Press arrived on May 25, 1861. It was clearly still under construction, as much an idea as a future city. They were in need of building materials. Look under “imports” in the first issue of the paper and you see that large numbers of shingles, posts and palings had just arrived from Hobart on board the Radiance, along with 35 bags of onions and 34 boxes of quinces.