Pat Lawlor was 38 years old when the Aussie run ended. And those years had been about much more than Shibli Bagarag's literary pages. Considering the travel he did around New Zealand and at regular intervals back and forth to Sydney, it's remarkable that he also launched The N.Z. Artist's Annual in 1926 amongst other spin-offs - notably his best-selling repackaged humour series of apparently well-received 'tales' based on pidgin-Maori jokes and race- based stereotypes.
All of this activity was connected with the good offices and financing of the Sydney-based New Century Press. The Annual ran until 1932 and, on the same basis as the New Zealand edition of Aussie, was printed by New Century Press in Sydney. In a diary entry for December 1926 Lawlor commented that while it was difficult to publish from Sydney, he doubted if any New Zealand printer would have taken the risk.
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