Cover title. Includes 'Off to the Antipides! With notes by the way'- a personal narrative by Thomas Allard Pettit and details of the Pettit family tree. Thomas Allard Pettit was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England in 1846.He learnt the trade of a printer and a journalist in Leamington Spa, and opened his first newspaper in Glossop, which is near Manchester, in England. He migrated to Australia via New Zealand in 1884, and came to Traralgon in 1886, at the invitation of George Hickox and H.C. Jones. On 27 January 1887 he printed the first issue of the "Gippsland Farmers' Journal" in Franklin Street, Traralgon in opposition to "Traralgon Record" . During the period 1890 to 1920 Thomas Pettit was involved in either setting up and improving under his proprietorship at least 25 Gippsland and outer suburban newspapers. T.A. Pettit was the best known country pressman in Victoria in his time, and as a journalist had few equals. His able pen did much for Gippsland and Victoria.