23 Oct 2025
5:30 pm
DPAGS Office, The Octagon, next to i-Site

The Otago Witness’s special pictorial supplements (1900-1932) offer thousands of images that appeal to anyone interested in Dunedin’s, Otago-Southland’s, and New Zealand’s past. Lachy Paterson’s talk will discuss the work of the Preserving Local History and Educational Trust in digitising high-quality publicly-accessible copies of the photographs, what can be found, including the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition of 1925-26.

FREE

This is part of the Ōtepoti Dunedin Heritage Festival programme

About the Speaker
Professor Lachy Paterson
Trustee

Lachy retired from the University of Otago in 2023, where he worked in Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies teaching te reo Māori and Māori history. He has a particular interest in Māori-language newspapers, both as historical agents in their own right, and as repositories of content that shed new light on Māori histories.