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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. William Fenwick

Mr. William Fenwick , Editor of the “Otago Witness,” has had a life-long connection with newspapers. Though born in England, he was only an infant when his parents left the Old Country for Melbourne in 1852, and as they arrived in Dunedin in 1856, almost all his life has been passed in New Zealand. He was educated at the public schools and at Mr. J. L. Shaw's Grammar School, and commenced his news page 231 paper career by being apprenticed in the “Daily Times” jobbing room in 1864. After a few years' engagement as overseer on a Dunedin daily paper, Mr. Fenwick becamepart proprietor of an evening paper, “The Age.” In 1878 he returned to the “Daily Times” as printer of the “Witness,” and also took part in the literary work of the paper during the then editor's frequent absences on country tours. Mr. Fenwick succeeded to the editorial control of the paper on the death of Mr. Robert Wilson in September, 1879, and thus celebrates this year (1904) his quarter of a century's editorial charge of the “Witness.”

Mr. W. Fenwick.

Mr. W. Fenwick.