{"id":440244,"date":"2026-05-22T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:06:15","slug":"napier-century-old-newspaper-imprint-found-at-work-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440244\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier: Century-old newspaper imprint found at work site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"The imprint shows advertisements for a tonic and furniture. In the early 20th century, most newspaper front pages contained only small business ads and public notices, rather than news articles. Photo \/  NCC\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The imprint shows advertisements for a tonic and furniture. In the early 20th century, most newspaper front pages contained only small business ads and public notices, rather than news articles. Photo \/  NCC<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">It is unclear which newspaper it is, as there were multiple titles in circulation in Hawke\u2019s Bay around 1910, including the Daily Telegraph, Hawke\u2019s Bay Herald and the Hawke\u2019s Bay Tribune (which began in 1910).<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">The discovery lines up with the age of the nearby Cameron Rd box culvert, estimated to be about 114 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">An advertisement imprinted into the concrete says \u201cLane\u2019s Emulsion\u201d, a tonic first produced in Oamaru in 1898.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNot a bad find for a day on the tools,\u201d the council post read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The imprint shows advertisements for a tonic and furniture. In the early 20th century, most newspaper front pages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,1863,1558,93345,39195,1770,1862,14647,2837,1874,31037,224818,130,3607,35479,111,43,21031,139,69,224819,1314,1857,131,4576,15146,1530],"class_list":["post-440244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-back","tag-been","tag-bluff","tag-centuryold","tag-concrete","tag-dating","tag-discovered","tag-during","tag-found","tag-hill","tag-imprint","tag-more","tag-napier","tag-napiers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-preserved","tag-road","tag-site","tag-than","tag-work","tag-works","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}