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Haurongo: Gillon, Edward Thomas

Members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, June 1885

Members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, June 1885

Photographed with fellow members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1885, Edward Thomas Gillon (third from right, front row) was also a fearless and influential editor of Wellington's Evening Post who could write 'with vitriol almost as easily as with the milk of human kindness'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-118591a-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Leslie Verry. 'Gillon, Edward Thomas', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1993, whakahou December 2005. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/201/members-of-the-parliamentary-press-gallery-june-1885 (accessed 4 June 2026).