Climbing the rigging of SS Mapourika are (from top to bottom) Charles Houghton Mills, Captain George Crawshaw and Health Department chief James Mason, in 1903. PHOTO: HENRY WINKELMANN VIA AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM In a six-part series, Mike Houlahan looks back at how the Otago Daily Times covered burning issues of yesteryear. Today he looks at when the newspaper itself was in the spotlight.