Waikouaiti News Agency

The building started life as Mr G. K. Browne’s stationery shop.

The Murray family outside their news agency.

He kept the good citizens of the town supplied with pen, ink and paper for 25 years before selling the shop to the Murray family who added a barber’s shop and extended the premises so they could live on site. Among others to have owned the news agency business and site over the years were a Mr O’Connell, Ramsay Townsend, John and Susan Brown, Allan and Kay Black and Oz Gibson. The building has been rented to many different people since the mid 1980s. These days it is still in use as a shop, providing additional space for The Oddity, a second-hand shop next door.

The news agency building today.