Those Were the Days: A Nostalgic Look at the . from the Pages of the Weekly News Volume Four (1940's) - Hardcover with dustjacket, 175 pages - Compiled by Phillip Ridge - Published by Moa Publications (1988) - ISBN 10: 1869470354 - Good condition, dust jacket has small tears Those Were the Days - Those Were The Days presents a nostalgic look at life from the much loved glossy pages of The Weekly News. The Weekly News was one of the great success stories of New Zealand journalism. It is also part of our national history. Founded in 1863 as The Auckland Weekly News Town & Country Journal, the Weekly, as it came to be known, won a place in the public's affections. Famous for its bright pink cover, this magazine brought the events and people of the country and the world to the towns and scattered rural hamlets of New Zealand and served to unite the nation as no other publication has done. - Although the Weekly closed down in 1971, it continues to be fondly remembered and indeed there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of homes in New Zealand in which anything from one or two copies to hundreds of issues are still cherished. - Those Were The Days presents in six volumes a social history of New Zealand as seen through the pages of The Weekly News, the celebrations and tragedies, the happenings of everyday life. Each book in the series forms a vivid documentary of that era.