You'll notice a slight change to our front page starting this week.
The new look is part of changes we're making across the NZME Community Publication Network to bring you a local newspaper that continues to be an informative and interesting read and helps us better support local businesses in reaching local readers.
It's the latest in a long line of changes that have kept the 144-year-old tradition of community newspapers in CHB forging ahead, keeping people updated with what's going on and who's doing what.
The Waipawa Mail was first published on Saturday, September 14, 1878 by Joseph Ivess. He believed a settlement without a newspaper had no voice.
By the 1930s Mr Critchley was producing the Mail but with the advent of World War II the Waipawa Mail ceased producing the newspaper, carrying on just as a printing works.