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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

§ 10. Printing the first English Book and Placard

§ 10. Printing the first English Book and Placard.

On May 19th, 1836, the first English book was printed at the New Zealand Mission Press; a small unpretentious book of eight pages, post 8vo., containing the first "Report of the New Zealand Temperance Society." Placards also in English, and the first ever printed in New Zealand, calling a Public Meeting to establish the said Society, were printed and circulated the month before.—