The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
The Manawatu Farmer
The Manawatu Farmer (proprietors, William Charles Nation and Charles Cecil Nation, trading as Nation and Son), Ballance Street, Shannon. This journal was established by the present proprietors in 1893, shortly before the general election took place. The parer—a two page “news” of twenty-eight columns, issued tri-weekly—has a wide circulation from Paraparaumu to Palmerston North. A branch office has been established at Levin, the headquarters of the travelling reporter. Politically the paper supports the Seddon Government. As a journal, it is devoted to the interests of commerce, industry, and agriculture, and contains a variety of interesting matter. The leaders are neat and smartly written, chiefly from the pen of Mr. W. C. Nation, the paper being also recognised as a first-class advertising medium throughout the district, in which it is well patronised. Messrs. Nation and Son also print the Foxton Telegraph for the proprietors of that journal, which is run much on the same line as the Manawatu Farmer.