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On this day 24 June 1905 the New Zealand Truth newspaper hit the streets and reporting in this country would never be the same again. With a racy and zealous investigative style, the old adage “never let the truth get in the way of a good story” could have been invented for this newspaper. Archives New Zealand holds various records of backlash caused by articles. New Zealand Truth considered itself 'the champion of the little person and the scourge of corruption and scandal in high places'. Some of its stories are the stuff of legend and are remembered today while others have faded into obscurity. Shown here is an article that caused quite a stir at the Department of Justice in 1939 when a former inmate of Rotoroa Island Inebriates Home told his story to New Zealand Truth. Sent to the island retreat to recover from alcoholism he emerged with a tale of despots with revolvers driving inmates to the brink of suicide, slave labour and much more. The island rehabilitation facility in the Hauraki Gulf was New Zealand’s first and longest running addiction treatment centre. It was set up by the Salvation Army in 1911 and closed in 2005. Over that time there were 12,000 admissions to the institution commonly known as Alcitraz. The response to the newspaper expose from the Salvation Army was that the allegations were “entirely a gross and wilful misrepresentation of the facts”. Undeterred the New Zealand Truth went on to report another Rotoroa scandal, this time involving recovering alcoholics getting stuck into parsnip wine. “Sold in sauce bottles for a modest charge of half a crown and kept well away from the notice of the authorities it proved a very successful diversion (for inmates) of the formerly ‘parched island’ “ the newspaper reported. R16362828 www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=16362828 More information can be found here www.nzhistory.net.nz/first-issue-of-em-new-zealand-truth-... For more information email Research.Archives@dia.govt.nz For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/ArchivesNZ Material supplied by Archives New Zealand |
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