FALWASSER, HENRY. [editor]
The Auckland Times.
Tempora mutantur Nos Non mutamur in illis.
Vol. 1 Tuesday November 8 1842 No. 17. Large folio sheet, 2 leaves (integral), printed recto only, subscriber's (?) names 'Mr. & Mrs Sim' in brown ink. With fold lines, rubbing & small loss to corner.
The first issue was printed by Moore at the Government Printing Press and issued on September 5 1842. After only a few issues having been printed at the Press, the acting Governor, Lieutenant Shortland, prevented Falwasser from having use of the Press. For nine months he improvised, at his works at the corner of Chancery and High Streets he brought out the Times on a clothes mangle on coarse, spongy paper printed in an astonishing variety of types, the left-overs of the infant Auckland printing industry.
Copies of the Times are rare this issue shows the typographical ingenuity of Falwasser with his use of an assortment of different fonts, ‘We consider our mangle an ingenious and honorable triumph over as contemptible and sneaking an attempt to stifle the press as was ever perpetrated.'
The Times continued until 17 January 1846. A week later Falwasser died. Surviving copies are rare in isolated numbers.

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