THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
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The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication.
Some traditions were established early in the life of the new city.
In February 1862,
The Press published its first coverage of the three-day Canterbury Cup horse races, followed by the first show of the Canterbury Pastoral and Agricultural Association in October, which “may be pronounced in the midst of some drawbacks to have been a great success,” the paper reported.
“The show took place in a paddock of about four acres, in Armagh-street, surrounded by a high and thick gorse fence, and covered with a beautiful sward of English grass,”