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Haurongo: Cleveland, Francis Leslie

The chief reporter

A seated man lights a cigarette, his feet on his cluttered desk, in front of shelves filled with papers.

Les Cleveland’s 1954 portrait of Bert Kane, the chief reporter for The Press newspaper, captures the busy male world of journalism which Cleveland had left behind when he moved to the West Coast three years earlier.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Les Cleveland Collection. 1/4-130355-F

by Les Cleveland

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

Lawrence McDonald. 'Cleveland, Francis Leslie', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47867/the-chief-reporter (accessed 4 June 2026).