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The Wellington Independent was an early newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand. The first issue of it was on 2 April 1845 and it continued until 1874 when it was replaced by Julius Vogel 's The New Zealand Times .
Independent Newspapers Limited (INL) was a newspaper publisher in New Zealand. Started as the Wellington Publishing Company in 1906 to publish The Dominion , it began taking over other newspapers in the 1970s and was renamed Independent Newspapers in 1972.
The four main centres of New Zealand each have a major newspaper based in them Auckland (The New Zealand Herald), Christchurch , Dunedin (Otago Daily Times) and Wellington (The Post). Along these there are several low-budget and free papers which cater for particular areas or subcultures.
Cook Strait News was a free community newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, which covered the Eastern and Southern suburbs of the city. It was published between 5 April 1994 and 13 June 2006. [1] According to a 2012 ABC audit, Cook Strait News printed 25,456 copies weekly.
The Evening Post (8 February 1865 – 6 July 2002) was an afternoon metropolitan daily newspaper based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded in 1865 by Dublin -born printer, newspaper manager and leader-writer Henry Blundell , who brought his large family to New Zealand in 1863.
The first issue of The New Zealand Times was published on 1 June 1874. In its editorial and via the newspaper's masthead, it was announced that this publication would now incorporate The Wellington Independent. [4]
The Dominion Post (commonly referred to as The DomPost) was created in July 2002 when Independent Newspapers Limited (INL) amalgamated two Wellington printed and published metropolitan broadsheet newspapers, [4] The Evening Post, an evening paper first published on 8 February 1865, and The Dominion, a morning paper first published on Dominion Day, 26 September 1907.
Prior to this the residents had access to The Wellington Independent, New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator and Petone Chronicle. [2] In 1928, Smith was joined by brothers James and William Kerr of the Petone Chronicle. They formed the Hutt Printing and Publishing Company to produce the paper.