# New Zealand Free Lance: Christchurch records

Every New Zealand Free Lance record the archive holds about Christchurch, 30 of them, 1908, oldest first.

## Its patch

Where this paper’s records surfaced in the archive’s searches, the searches that returned it, not a claim it covered them.

The wider field, names its searches used that no suburb owns: [Nouvelle-Zélande](https://www.chch.live/search?q=Nouvelle-Z%C3%A9lande)
Streets: [hills road, Edgeware](https://www.chch.live/street/edgeware/hills-road) · [buchanans road, Hei Hei](https://www.chch.live/street/hei-hei/buchanans-road) · [marama crescent, Mount Pleasant](https://www.chch.live/street/mount-pleasant/marama-crescent) · [clifton bay, Clifton](https://www.chch.live/street/clifton/clifton-bay) · [armour place, Halswell](https://www.chch.live/street/halswell/armour-place) · [hei hei road, Hei Hei](https://www.chch.live/street/hei-hei/hei-hei-road) · [road, Hei Hei](https://www.chch.live/street/hei-hei/road) · [seddon street, Kainga](https://www.chch.live/street/kainga/seddon-street) · [muritai terrace, Mount Pleasant](https://www.chch.live/street/mount-pleasant/muritai-terrace) · [albert terrace, Saint Martins](https://www.chch.live/street/saint-martins/albert-terrace) · [hercules street, Shirley](https://www.chch.live/street/shirley/hercules-street) · [denman street, Sumner](https://www.chch.live/street/sumner/denman-street)

30 records shown, each link goes to the institution that keeps the original.

- [Page 14 Advertisements Column 1 (New Zealand Free Lance, 08 September 1900)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19000908.2.18.1), 1900-09-08, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Social Gossip. (New Zealand Free Lance, 08 February 1902)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19020208.2.19), 1902-02-08, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 (New Zealand Free Lance, 17 January 1903)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19030117.2.9.2), 1903-01-17, New Zealand Free Lance
- [All Sorts Of People (New Zealand Free Lance, 11 April 1903)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19030411.2.2), 1903-04-11, New Zealand Free Lance
- [CHRISTCHURCH (New Zealand Free Lance, 17 September 1904)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19040917.2.18.1), 1904-09-17, New Zealand Free Lance
- [All Sorts of People (New Zealand Free Lance, 28 January 1905)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19050128.2.2), 1905-01-28, New Zealand Free Lance
- [HARD LINES. A membei of the Piimitive Methodist Conference at Christchurch suggested the advisability of clipping the racing and betting news from the papers. Mr. Goodman: That's all right, of course, but they've been and gone and clipped my stining speech about the Bible-in-schools out as uell. The clippers are the only ones ivho will know how the betting stands. (New Zealand Free Lance, 28 January 1905)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19050128.2.14.3), 1905-01-28, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Social Gossip. (New Zealand Free Lance, 25 March 1905)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19050325.2.8), 1905-03-25, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Special gossip (New Zealand Free Lance, 22 April 1905)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19050422.2.7), 1905-04-22, New Zealand Free Lance
- [IT BECAME A HABIT. No. 1: So you've just returned, old chappie, from Christchurch, eh? By the way, which hotel did you stop at? No. 2: Which hotel? My dear boy tlie hotels we stopped at are too numerous to mention. (New Zealand Free Lance, 23 December 1905)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19051223.2.21.1), 1905-12-23, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Entre Nous. (New Zealand Free Lance, 10 March 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19060310.2.13), 1906-03-10, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 13 Advertisements Column 3 (New Zealand Free Lance, 10 March 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19060310.2.14.3), 1906-03-10, New Zealand Free Lance
- [All Sorts of People (New Zealand Free Lance, 28 April 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19060428.2.2), 1906-04-28, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 15 Advertisements Column 2 (New Zealand Free Lance, 16 June 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19060616.2.20.2), 1906-06-16, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 15 Advertisements Column 2 (New Zealand Free Lance, 23 June 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19060623.2.18.2), 1906-06-23, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 15 Advertisements Column 2 (New Zealand Free Lance, 18 August 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19060818.2.19.2), 1906-08-18, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 15 Advertisements Column 2 (New Zealand Free Lance, 13 October 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19061013.2.24.2), 1906-10-13, New Zealand Free Lance
- [AT THE CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION. Things we saiv and some we fancied. (New Zealand Free Lance, 10 November 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19061110.2.6.4.1), 1906-11-10, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 15 Advertisements Column 3 (New Zealand Free Lance, 10 November 1906)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19061110.2.18.3), 1906-11-10, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Social Gossip (New Zealand Free Lance, 05 January 1907)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19070105.2.7), 1907-01-05, New Zealand Free Lance
- [It has been decided that each Minister in turn shall reside at Christchurch and have supreme control of the Exhibition.—News item. RUNNING THE CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION—EVERY MINISTER HAS A TRY. (New Zealand Free Lance, 12 January 1907)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19070112.2.6.4.1), 1907-01-12, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Social Gossip (New Zealand Free Lance, 07 March 1908)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19080307.2.7), 1908-03-07, New Zealand Free Lance
- [ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS! The Church, in the Socialistic turmoil, ought not to be lagging behind, but should be standing side by side with the men who were gong on and on in the world's history.—Bishop Jnlius. Christchurch Citizen: What, at it again? (New Zealand Free Lance, 05 September 1908)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19080905.2.12.2), 1908-09-05, New Zealand Free Lance
- [The Hockey Conference. AND WHAT THEY CONFERRED ON. (New Zealand Free Lance, 12 September 1908)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19080912.2.17), 1908-09-12, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 17 Advertisements Column 1 (New Zealand Free Lance, 14 November 1908)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19081114.2.17.1), 1908-11-14, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Page 21 Advertisements Column 1 (New Zealand Free Lance, 21 November 1908)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19081121.2.23.1), 1908-11-21, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Untitled Illustration](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19090206.2.4.4.1), 1909-02-06, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Social Gossip. (New Zealand Free Lance, 13 March 1909)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19090313.2.7), 1909-03-13, New Zealand Free Lance
- [All Sorts of People (New Zealand Free Lance, 20 March 1909)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19090320.2.3), 1909-03-20, New Zealand Free Lance
- [Back Row — G. W. Adair, Bovs' Work Director, Wellington; W. B. Babcock, Boys' Work Director, Christchurch; M. Gould, Hon. Sec, Timaru; W. Moore, Hon. Sec, Milton; G. W. B. Hughes. General Secretary, Dunedin: A. Snowball, General Secretary,"Masterton; J. B. McKinney, General Secretary, Invercargill; W. G. Edmunds, Acting General Secretary, Auckland; C. R.|Webstei\ General Secretary, Gisborne. Front Hoto.—H. S. Hart, Hon. Sec, Wellington; H. N. Holmes, General Secretary, Wellington; J. J. Virgo, National Secretary of Australia and New Zealand; 0. E. Salter, President of Conference; H. W. Kersley, Eepresentative National Committee; J. H. Greenwood, Physical Director, Wellington; F, E. Parker, Bon, Sec, Levin. —Zak, Photo. (New Zealand Free Lance, 02 October 1909)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19091002.2.23.1), 1909-10-02, New Zealand Free Lance

## Questions, answered briefly

**What was the New Zealand Free Lance?**

A newspaper on the Papers Past shelf, the archive holds 30 of its records that mention Christchurch, 1908. The full run lives at the National Library, not here.

**How much of the New Zealand Free Lance does the archive hold?**

30 records, the #117 heaviest file of the 285 mastheads on the shelf.

**Where are the New Zealand Free Lance originals?**

Papers Past, the National Library’s newspaper archive, every record row here links out to the issue it came from.


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The originals live at Papers Past (paperspast.natlib.govt.nz) · data: https://api.chch.live/paper?slug=new-zealand-free-lance · the laid-out page: https://www.chch.live/paper/new-zealand-free-lance
Printing beside it: Star, https://www.chch.live/paper/star · Evening Post, https://www.chch.live/paper/evening-post · Auckland Weekly News, https://www.chch.live/paper/auckland-weekly-news · Ellesmere Guardian, https://www.chch.live/paper/ellesmere-guardian · Photographs / He Whakaahua, https://www.chch.live/paper/photographs-he-whakaahua · Ashburton Guardian, https://www.chch.live/paper/ashburton-guardian · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, https://www.chch.live/paper/akaroa-mail-and-banks-peninsula-advertiser · Otago Witness, https://www.chch.live/paper/otago-witness