Sid Scales: Ashburton’s doodler down south

There are very few forms of art that can entertain or at least engage any person, regardless of their age, status, or personal opinions. There is one medium however that can claim to hold this power: cartoons. Whether they are silly, political, opinionated, or a mixture of the three, adults and children alike all enjoy,...

Broadsheet Banter: Tiffs between newspapers

Before our town’s first newspaper the Ashburton Mail was established in 1877, publications such as the Lyttelton Times, Christchurch Star, and the Timaru Herald were considered our “local” papers. From the late 1850s to the late 1870s, these papers were of great value to the people of Ashburton and surrounds, because they included important news...