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- 09:15, 21 March 2026 Marlborough Press (hist | edit) [3,953 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Marlborough Press |Abbreviation=MPress |Begin year=1860 |End Year=1948 |PapersPast Years=1860 - 1886 |Region=Marlborough |Brief History=When the Marlborough region split from Nelson to become a separate province, two experienced newspaper printers saw the opportunity to set up their own newspaper. Timothy William Millington, formerly a compositor at the Melbourne Herald, started work at the Nelson Examiner in 1859. There he met George Coward, reported t...")
- 09:05, 21 March 2026 Marlborough Express (hist | edit) [3,094 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Marlborough Express |Other Names=Marlborough Express and Weekly Commercial Reporter |Abbreviation=MEX |Begin year=1868 |End Year=Still being published |PapersPast Years=1868 - 1952 |Region=Marlborough |Brief History=The Marlborough Express is the daily newspaper of Blenheim and has been published there since 1866. In 1866 the prospects for a new newspaper in Marlborough were not good. The population of the province was small and Marlborough already h...")
- 08:10, 21 March 2026 Marlborough Daily Times (hist | edit) [3,054 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Marlborough Daily Times |Other Names=Marlborough Times |Abbreviation=MDTIM |Begin year=28-Mar-1879 |End Year=1905 |PapersPast Years=1880 - 1888 |Region=Marlborough |Brief History=This is the third of the newspapers to be known as the Marlborough Times. The first began in Picton in 1864, as a result of the recent gold discoveries in the Wakamarina River. It lasted just over 7 months. The second Marlborough Times was established in Blenheim in 1874 by...")
- 08:02, 21 March 2026 Manawatu Times (hist | edit) [1,354 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Manawatu Times |Other Names=Manawatu Daily Times; Times |Abbreviation=MT |Begin year=23-Oct-1875 |End Year=1963 |PapersPast Years=1877 - 1945 |Region=Manawatu - Wanganui |Brief History=The first issue of the Manawatu Times was published on 23 October 1875, the first newspaper in Palmerston North. Its founders, partners Joseph Poulter Leary and John Law Kirkbride, had established the Rangitikei Advocate 5 months earlier. It appeared in the evenings twice...")
- 07:56, 21 March 2026 Manawatu Standard (hist | edit) [1,622 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Manawatu Standard |Other Names=Manawatu Daily Standard; Manawatu Evening Standard |Abbreviation=MS |Begin year=29-Nov-1880 |End Year=Still being published |PapersPast Years=1881 - 1945 |Region=Manawatu - Wanganui |Brief History=Keen to have his own newspaper, Alexander McMinn, editor of the Rangitkei Advocate, established the Manawatu Standard in 1880 as a four page morning daily, the first daily in Palmerston North. The first issue, dated 29 November 1...")
- 07:04, 21 March 2026 Manawatu Herald (hist | edit) [3,129 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Manawatu Herald |Abbreviation=MH |Begin year=1878 |End Year=1997 |PapersPast Years=1878 - 1939 |Region=Manawatu - Wanganui |Brief History=Newspaper publishing began in the Foxton area in the 1870s when the Manawatu was opened up for European settlement. In this period Foxton’s port was developed and the town was linked by coach and rail to the main centres in the lower North Island. The Manawatu Herald was founded by brothers George Warren Russell...")
- 06:25, 21 March 2026 Lyttelton Times (hist | edit) [2,151 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Lyttelton Times |Abbreviation=LT |Begin year=11-Jan-1851 |End Year=29-Jun-1935 |PapersPast Years=1851 - 1920 |Region=Canterbury |NewsRecords=The following table lists rail related records from this newspaper. Select 'Edit with form' from the top menu to add an item }} {{NewsRecord |Subject=Ironwork for 80 freight wagons being sourced from Addington |Location=Newmarket |PapersPast URL=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18851121.2.27.3 |Year=L...")
- 06:13, 21 March 2026 Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette (hist | edit) [3,690 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette |Abbreviation=LTCBG |Begin year=1881 |End Year=1898 |PapersPast Years=1885 - 1886 |Region=West Coast |Brief History=Lyell, in the South Island’s Buller district, was a major producer of gold and the centre of considerable quartz mining activity in the surrounding hills until the mid 1890s. Gold was first discovered in the area by Maori prospectors in the early 1860s. As word spread of their finds, miners arriv...")
- 05:57, 21 March 2026 Little Un (hist | edit) [2,585 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Little Un |Abbreviation=LITLUN |Begin year=Dec-1884 |End Year=Apr-1885 |PapersPast Years=1884 - 1885 |Region=Bay of Plenty |Brief History=Little Un appeared in Tauranga as an evening daily between December 1884 and April 1885. Its name clearly referred to its unusual size. Little Un was published in a quarto format and cost ½d a copy. Appropriately, the paper’s Latin motto was ‘Multum in parvo’- loosely translated in this instance to suggest,...")
- 05:50, 21 March 2026 Levin Daily Chronicle (hist | edit) [4,035 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Levin Daily Chronicle |Other Names=Levin Chronicle |Abbreviation=LDC |Begin year=1917 |End Year=Still being published |PapersPast Years=1917 - 1946 |Region=Manawatu - Wanganui |Brief History=The paper had a complicated genesis. In Shannon in 1893, William C Nation, well-known in spiritualist circles, began the tri-weekly Manawatu Farmer and Horowhenua County Chronicle, with his son Charles. Nation had previously worked for the Nelson Colonist and the Ne...")
- 00:59, 21 March 2026 Lake Wakatip Mail (hist | edit) [3,010 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Lake Wakatip Mail |Begin year=2-May-1863 |End Year=6-Feb-1947 |PapersPast Years=1863 - 1947 |Region=Otago |Brief History=Following the discovery of gold on the banks of the Shotover River in November 1862, the town of Queenstown appeared almost overnight and the first issue of the Lake Wakatip Mail followed soon after on 2 May 1863. The Otago Daily Times of 18 May 1863 commented about the Mail that ‘it seems difficult to realise ... that such a paper...")
- 00:50, 21 March 2026 Lake County Press (hist | edit) [2,352 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Lake County Press |Other Names=Arrow Observer and Lakes District Chronicle |Abbreviation=LCP |Begin year=5-Jan-1872 |End Year=1928 |PapersPast Years=1872 - 1928 |Region=Otago |Brief History=The predecessor of the Lake County Press, the Arrow Observer and Lakes District Chronicle, published its first issue on 23 May 1871 in the gold-mining settlement of Arrowtown. William Warren of Queenstown’s Lake Wakatip Mail and Stephen Noble Brown, who later ran t...")
- 00:43, 21 March 2026 Lake County Mail (hist | edit) [2,007 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Lake County Mail |Abbreviation=LCM |Begin year=29-May-1947 |End Year=1948 |PapersPast Years=1947 - 1948 |Region=Otago |Brief History=The Lake County Mail appears to be the short-lived successor to Queenstown’s Lake Wakatip Mail and the Lake County Press which it had absorbed previously. During its early years, the Lake Wakatip Mail was, as Queenstown prospered, a bi-weekly that regularly ran to eight pages. In February 1875, with ‘a reduced popul...")
- 23:39, 20 March 2026 Kumara Times (hist | edit) [3,324 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Kumara Times |Abbreviation=KUMAT |Begin year=1876 |End Year=1917 |PapersPast Years=1877 - 1896 |Region=West Coast |Brief History=‘Not the least interesting paper on the West Coast was the Kumara Times and Pounamu and Goldsborough Advertiser, which was founded in 1876 by the proprietors of the Grey River Argus’. (Guy H Scholefield, Newspapers in New Zealand, 1958). Gold had been discovered on the West Coast in the 1860s, with Hokitika as the goldf...")
- 23:23, 20 March 2026 King Country Chronicle (hist | edit) [4,181 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=King Country Chronicle |Abbreviation=KCC |Begin year=1906 |End Year=1980 |PapersPast Years=1906 - 1939 |Region=Waikato |Brief History=Because European occupation and development of the King Country came much later than most other parts of New Zealand, newspapers also came relatively late to the area. The King Country was the heart of the Maori King movement, in parts still strongly antagonistic to European settlement, so it was not until the main truck...")
- 21:58, 20 March 2026 Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser (hist | edit) [3,446 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser |Abbreviation=KSRA |Begin year=1901 |End Year=Apr-1936 |PapersPast Years=1905 - 1933 |Region=Waikato |Brief History=The Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser was established in 1901 by William Murray Thompson and Thomas Elliott Wilson. Thompson was an experienced journalist and Wilson was a newspaper proprietor who at various times ran the Bruce Herald, the Waimate Times, the Egmont Settler and the Mangaweka Settler....")
- 20:26, 20 March 2026 Kaipara and Waitemata Echo (hist | edit) [2,351 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Kaipara and Waitemata Echo |Other Names=Kaipara Advertiser and Waitemata Chronicle |Abbreviation=KWE |Begin year=1905 |End Year=1927 |PapersPast Years=1911 - 1921 |Region=Auckland |Brief History=In 1905, Charles de La Roche started the weekly Kaipara Advertiser and Waitemata Chronicle in Helensville. A 41-year-old entrepreneur, de La Roche was born and grew up in New South Wales. At 21 he was an officer in the Australian Imperial Forces and served in...")
- 20:23, 20 March 2026 Kaikoura Star (hist | edit) [3,189 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Kaikoura Star |Other Names=Kaikoura Star and North Canterbury and South Marlborough News; Kaikoura Star and Kaikoura County Gazette and Recorder |Abbreviation=KAIST |Begin year=1880 |End Year=Still being published |PapersPast Years=1880 - 1950 |Region=Canterbury |Brief History=Kaikōura’s first newspaper, the Kaikoura Herald and East Coast Advertiser, started as an off-shoot of the Marlborough Press. In 1869 it was taken over by a local school teacher...")
- 20:10, 20 March 2026 Inangahua Times (hist | edit) [2,349 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Inangahua Times |Abbreviation=IT |Begin year=1875 |End Year=6-Jun-1942 |PapersPast Years=1877 - 1942 |Region=West Coast |Brief History=The Inangahua Times was published in Reefton from 1875 until it ceased publication in 1942. Initially it was issued three times a week, but by 1891 it came out daily. The Times was started by William Joseph Potts. Potts had been involved with other newspapers on the West Coast. In 1873 he had edited Grey Valley Times...")
- 09:51, 20 March 2026 Hutt Valley Independent (hist | edit) [1,356 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hutt Valley Independent |Abbreviation=HVI |Begin year=1911 |End Year=1933 |PapersPast Years=1911 - 1919 |Region=Wellington |Brief History=The Hutt Valley Independent was started by Angus McCurdy in 1911. McCurdy was a significant figure in the development of Upper Hutt, both socially and politically. To him can be attributed the first Town Board in 1907, the first cinema, the debate for gas lighting within Upper Hutt and the first newspaper, the Hutt Va...")
- 09:37, 20 March 2026 Hutt News (hist | edit) [2,309 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hutt News |Abbreviation=HN |Begin year=1927 |End Year=1972 |PapersPast Years=1927 - 1948 |Region=Wellington |Brief History=The Hutt News is one of New Zealand’s earliest and longest running community newspapers. It was established by Walter Harold Smith in 1927. Smith, a retired farmer, thought the time was right for Lower Hutt to have its own paper. The neighbouring borough of Petone had managed to sustain a newspaper, the Hutt and Petone Chronicle,...")
- 09:30, 20 March 2026 Huntly Press and District Gazette (hist | edit) [2,628 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Huntly Press and District Gazette |Abbreviation=HPDG |Begin year=1912 |End Year=1995 |PapersPast Years=1912 - 1932 |Region=Waikato |Brief History=The first issue of the Huntly Press and District Gazette was printed in May 1910 by James Henry Claridge (1862-1946). Claridge was a compositor, editor and publisher who founded a number of newspapers in New Zealand including the Eltham Argus and Kaponga District Advertiser (1897), the Martinborough Star (1904...")
- 09:21, 20 March 2026 Hot Lakes Chronicle (hist | edit) [3,640 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hot Lakes Chronicle |Abbreviation=HLC |Begin year=1895 |End Year=1910 |PapersPast Years=1895 - 1910 |Region=Bay of Plenty |Brief History=In early June 1885 the New Zealand Herald’s Rotorua correspondent wrote: ‘The first copy of our local paper, appropriately styled the Hot Lakes Chronicle, will probably be issued on Saturday first [6 June], as a weekly production. The proprietor, Mr Lechuer, says he has met with every encouragement and is sanguine...")
- 09:14, 20 March 2026 Horowhenua Chronicle (hist | edit) [3,972 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Horowhenua Chronicle |Abbreviation=HC |Begin year=1910 |PapersPast Years=1910 - 1917 |Region=Manawatu - Wanganui |Brief History=The paper had a complicated genesis. In Shannon in 1893, William C Nation, well-known in spiritualist circles, began the tri-weekly Manawatu Farmer and Horowhenua County Chronicle, with his son Charles. Nation had previously worked for the Nelson Colonist and the New Zealand Times and had owned the Wairarapa Standard. In 1896 t...")
- 08:43, 20 March 2026 Hokitika Guardian (hist | edit) [2,988 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hokitika Guardian |Abbreviation=HOG |Begin year=1917 |End Year=1940 |PapersPast Years=1917 - 1940 |Region=West Coast |Brief History=Following the discovery of gold on the West Coast, a vigorous newspaper industry developed in Hokitika. Hokitika’s first newspaper was the West Coast Times, which was founded by John Tyrrell in May 1865. The Times’ most prominent early rival was the Evening Star, established by Joseph Klein and James Snyder Browne. Guy...")
- 07:04, 20 March 2026 Hawkes Bay Tribune (hist | edit) [2,071 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hawkes Bay Tribune |Abbreviation=HBTRIB |Begin year=1910 |End Year=1937 |PapersPast Years=1910 - 1937 |Region=Hawkes Bay |Brief History=The first issue of the Hawke’s Bay Tribune, incorporating the Hastings Standard, was published on 12 December 1910. William Whitlock of the Standard continued to print and publish the new paper. The 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake dealt a severe blow to both Hastings and the Tribune. The newspaper’s office was seve...")
- 05:54, 20 March 2026 Hawkes Bay Times (hist | edit) [2,586 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hawkes Bay Times |Abbreviation=HBT |Begin year=1861 |End Year=1874 |PapersPast Years=1861 - 1874 |Region=Hawkes Bay |Brief History=The Hawke’s Bay Times, started to oppose the views of landowners favoured by the Hawke’s Bay Herald, went on the attack in its first weekly issue in July 1861. The Hawke’s Bay Herald, used to holding sway in Napier and through the new province’s country areas, was quick to respond. ‘We observe that the editor, in h...")
- 05:51, 20 March 2026 Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune (hist | edit) [1,872 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune |Abbreviation=HBHETR |Begin year=1937 |End Year=1999 |PapersPast Years=1937 - 1950 |Region=Hawkes Bay |Brief History=The Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune is the result of the 1937 amalgamation between two existing titles, the Hawke’s Bay Herald and the Hawke’s Bay Tribune. Sir Donald McLean first proposed a Hawke's Bay newspaper to advocate for provincial separation from Wellington. Another settler, James Wood, took up the c...")
- 05:44, 20 March 2026 Hawkes Bay Herald (hist | edit) [2,222 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hawkes Bay Herald |Other Names=Hawke’s Bay Herald and Ahuriri Advocate, Hawke's Bay Tribune, Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune |Abbreviation=HBH |Begin year=1857 |End Year=1937 |PapersPast Years=1857 - 1904 |Region=Hawkes Bay |Brief History=Sir Donald McLean first proposed a Hawke's Bay newspaper to advocate for provincial separation from Wellington. McLean was one of the first settlers of the fledgling district of Ahuriri, as it was called at the time. Anot...")
- 02:26, 20 March 2026 Hawera Star (hist | edit) [4,016 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hawera Star |Abbreviation=HAWST |Begin year=1924 |End Year=Still being published |PapersPast Years=1924 - 1935 |Region=Taranaki |Brief History=The Hawera Star was founded as the Hawera & Normanby Star in 1880 by Patrick Galvin, Joseph Innes and James Yorke. The first issue appeared on 10 April 1880 and the paper was published twice a week, until October 1881, when it became a tri-weekly. In 1882 a new press was installed and the paper began daily pub...")
- 02:21, 20 March 2026 Hawera & Normanby Star (hist | edit) [2,260 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hawera & Normanby Star |Abbreviation=HNS |Begin year=1880 |End Year=1977 |PapersPast Years=1880 - 1924 |Region=Taranaki |Brief History=The Hawera & Normanby Star was founded in 1880 by Patrick Galvin, Joseph Innes and J C Yorke. Southern Taranaki was being opened up at this time and they saw an opportunity to establish a paper there. All three had worked together on the New Zealand Times in Wellington and their partnership was forged there. The first...")
- 02:16, 20 March 2026 Hauraki Plains Gazette (hist | edit) [2,970 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hauraki Plains Gazette |Abbreviation=HPGAZ |Begin year=1921 |PapersPast Years=1921 - 1950 |Region=Waikato |Brief History=The Hauraki Plains succeeded the Ohinemuri Gazette in August 1921, incorporating it into the new title. Influencing this change was a desire to capture and acknowledge the importance of the newspaper to the wider region: ‘It will be readily conceded that the name Ohinemuri Gazette by no means conveys an adequate indication of the...")
- 02:05, 20 March 2026 Hastings Standard (hist | edit) [3,651 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Hastings Standard |Abbreviation=HAST |Begin year=1896 |End Year=1910 |PapersPast Years=1896 - 1910 |Region=Hawkes Bay |Brief History=Hastings’s first regular newspaper was the Hastings Star, which appeared in 1886 but only lasted for two years. Despite having a population of around 2,000 by 1890, another newspaper did not emerge until the Hastings Standard appeared in 1896. The Standard was started by William Arnott and Anthony Cashion, who were bo...")
- 10:00, 19 March 2026 Greymouth Evening Star (hist | edit) [2,444 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Greymouth Evening Star |Other Names=Greymouth Evening Star and Brunnerton Advocate |Abbreviation=GEST |Begin year=3-Jan-1901 |End Year=Still being published |PapersPast Years=1901 - 1950 |Region=West Coast |Brief History=The Greymouth Evening Star was the second newspaper to be established in Greymouth, although it was Greymouth’s first daily newspaper. Two important figures in the early life of the Star were James Snyder Browne and his son Montagu Li...")
- 04:06, 19 March 2026 Grey River Argus (hist | edit) [4,092 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Grey River Argus |Abbreviation=GRA |Begin year=1866 |End Year=1966 |PapersPast Years=1866 - 1949 |Region=West Coast |Brief History=The Grey River Argus was a rarity amongst New Zealand newspapers in that it was open about its political affiliations. The Argus supported the Labour Movement. For many years the legend, “New Zealand’s pioneer Labor daily” appeared on the masthead. The Argus was the first newspaper published in Greymouth, the first...")
- 03:59, 19 March 2026 Golden Bay Argus (hist | edit) [2,189 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Golden Bay Argus |Abbreviation=GBARG |Begin year=1883 |End Year=1915 |PapersPast Years=1883 - 1911 |Region=Nelson - Tasman |Brief History=The Golden Bay Argus commenced publication in 1883 in the town of Collingwood. The Argus was subtitled the Motueka, Takaka and Collingwood Advertiser and in the earliest issue located, 27 October 1883, Thomas John Metcalfe is stated as the printer and publisher. Metcalfe had previously run the Lyell Argus and he also...")
- 09:44, 18 March 2026 Globe (hist | edit) [2,961 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Globe |Abbreviation=GLOBE |Begin year=1-Jun-1874 |End Year=1882 |PapersPast Years=1874 - 1882 |Region=Canterbury |Brief History=The first attempt by the Christchurch morning paper, The Press, to enter the evening newspaper market took place in 1864. The owner of The Press, James Edward FitzGerald, launched the Theatre, which was published at six o’clock each evening. As well as advertising performances at the Royal Princess Theatre, it contained any s...")
- 09:38, 18 March 2026 Gisborne Herald (hist | edit) [1,786 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Gisborne Herald |Abbreviation=GISH |End Year=Still being published |PapersPast Years=1939 - 1950 |Region=Gisborne |Brief History=The owners of Napier's Hawke's Bay Herald, in partnership with others, set up the Poverty Bay Herald. The first issue of this bi-weekly morning paper was published in Gisborne on 5 January 1874. When the paper started publication Gisborne already had a newspaper, the Poverty Bay Standard (1872-1883). Like most New Zealand n...")
- 08:37, 18 March 2026 Free Lance (hist | edit) [2,128 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Free Lance |Other Names=New Zealand Free Lance |Abbreviation=NZFL |Begin year=1900 |End Year=1960 |PapersPast Years=1900 - 1920 |Region=Wellington |Brief History=The Free Lance was one of New Zealand’s most popular weekly, pictorial newspapers. It was first published in Wellington in 1900 by Geddis and Blomfield as a spin-off from their successful Auckland weekly, the NZ Observer and Free Lance. The publishers split the title, with the Auckland paper...")
- 08:04, 18 March 2026 Franklin Times (hist | edit) [2,421 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Franklin Times |Abbreviation=FRTIM |Begin year=1-Feb-1921 |End Year=19-Jan-1971 |PapersPast Years=1921 - 1945 |Region=Auckland |Brief History=The Franklin Times (known in its early days as the Pukekohe & Waiuku Times), one of South Auckland’s longest-lasting local newspapers, was published in Pukekohe from 1912 to 1971. On 8 March 1912 Pukekohe businessmen Richard Eames and William Cargill brought out the first issue of the Pukekohe & Waiuku Times....")
- 07:59, 18 March 2026 Feilding Star (hist | edit) [1,769 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Feilding Star |Other Names=Feilding Guardian |Abbreviation=FS |Begin year=21-May-1879 |End Year=Oct-1939 |PapersPast Years=1879 - 1934 |Region=Manawatu - Wanganui |Brief History=The Feilding Star was the first newspaper to publish in Feilding. The Feilding area had been developing through the 1870s driven by the settlement of the Manchester Block and the linking by rail of Feilding with other towns in the Manawatu and Horowhenua. The conditions were rig...")
- 07:54, 18 March 2026 Evening Star (hist | edit) [2,879 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Evening Star |Abbreviation=ESD |Begin year=1-Nov-1865 |End Year=3-Nov-1979 |PapersPast Years=1865 - 1945 |Region=Otago |Brief History=Dunedin’s population grew rapidly in the 1860s following the discovery of gold in Central Otago and the local newspaper scene was transformed. New Zealand first daily newspaper, the Otago Daily Times, began in 1861 and shortly afterwards Dunedin’s other long-lasting daily newspaper, the Evening Star was launched. The...")
- 07:51, 18 March 2026 Evening Post (hist | edit) [3,868 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Evening Post |Abbreviation=EP |Begin year=8-Feb-1865 |End Year=6-Jul-2002 |PapersPast Years=1865 - 1965 |Region=Wellington |Brief History=The Evening Post was founded by Henry Blundell and began publication as a daily in Wellington on 8 February 1865. Blundell was born in Dublin in 1813 and worked for nearly 30 years at the Dublin Evening Mail. In 1860 he migrated with his family to Melbourne. Blundell moved to New Zealand in 1863 and worked on the Otag...")
- 07:46, 18 March 2026 Ellesmere Guardian (hist | edit) [1,891 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Ellesmere Guardian |Abbreviation=EG |Begin year=1891 |End Year=1983 |PapersPast Years=1891 - 1945 |Region=Canterbury |Brief History=Launched in 1880, the Ellesmere Guardian was the second newspaper published in the Ellesmere area, Joseph Ivess having commenced the Ellesmere Advertiser just two days before. Both papers were published in Southbridge. The Advertiser didn’t see out the year. Charles Edmund Sherlock, the publisher of the Guardian, had p...")
- 07:39, 18 March 2026 Dunstan Times (hist | edit) [1,881 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Dunstan Times |Begin year=1866 |PapersPast Years=1866 - 1948 |Region=Otago |Brief History=There are competing stories about the origins of the Dunstan Times – at what later became Clyde. The Otago Daily Times ran one version in February 1864: ‘The ‘Dunstan Times’ or the ‘Dunstan News’ redivivus, made its debut on Saturday morning.’ It went on to say: ‘It is a double crown sheet, tolerably well got up’. But the next sentence raises...")
- 07:08, 18 March 2026 The Dominion (hist | edit) [5,234 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=The Dominion |Abbreviation=DOM |Begin year=26-Sep-1907 |End Year=2002 |PapersPast Years=1907 - 1945 |Region=Wellington |Brief History=The Dominion was launched on the first Dominion Day, September 26, 1907, with the specific purpose of providing a strong conservative voice in the capital where the other morning paper, the New Zealand Times, was poorly run and had a Liberal Party heritage, and the much stronger Evening Post was more interested in busines...")
- 05:54, 18 March 2026 Daily Telegraph (hist | edit) [3,402 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Daily Telegraph |Abbreviation=DTN |Begin year=1871 |End Year=1999 |PapersPast Years=1881 - 1934 |Region=Hawkes Bay |Brief History=In February 1871, when Napier’s population was 2,179, the Daily Telegraph made its first, inauspicious appearance. With a liberal political stance – equal rights and opportunities for all – it was launched to combat the dominance of powerful land interests, and campaigned from the beginning for the break-up of the large...")
- 05:43, 18 March 2026 Daily Southern Cross (hist | edit) [2,942 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Daily Southern Cross |Other Names=Southern Cross |Abbreviation=DSC |Begin year=1843 |End Year=1876 |PapersPast Years=1843 - 1876 |Region=Auckland |Brief History=The Southern Cross was started as a weekly paper in Auckland in 1843 by prominent businessman and aspiring politician, William Brown. It was one of the two early newspapers in Auckland that ran for any length of time, the other being its main rival, the New Zealander. The first editor of the...")
- 05:37, 18 March 2026 Cromwell Argus (hist | edit) [2,715 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=Cromwell Argus |Other Names=Cromwell Argus and Northern Gold-fields Gazette |Abbreviation=CA |Begin year=3-Nov-1869 |End Year=26-Oct-1948 |PapersPast Years=1869 - 1948 |Region=Otago |Brief History=In October 1869 George Fenwick and James Matthews, owners of the Lawrence-based Tuapeka Press and Goldfields Advocate, visited Cromwell to investigate setting up a newspaper there instead of Lawrence. They discovered that Robert Carrick was also intending to s...")
- 05:29, 18 March 2026 The Colonist (hist | edit) [1,406 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Newspaper |Name=The Colonist |Abbreviation=TC |Begin year=1857 |End Year=1-May-1920 |PapersPast Years=1857 - 1920 |Region=Nelson - Tasman |Brief History=The Colonist was founded in 1857 by a group of Nelson residents as a means to oppose the dominance of the large landowners of the district. At the time its only opposition was the Nelson Examiner, which the Colonist was largely established to challenge and to provide an alternative voice. A committee of six includin...")