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The paper was founded as the Taranaki News on 14 May 1857, by friends of former Taranaki Province Superintendent Charles Brown. [1] Brown was the first proprietor of the newspaper and he appointed his political supporter and former Taranaki Herald editor Richard Pheney as its editor.
The Taranaki Herald was an afternoon daily newspaper, published in New Plymouth, New Zealand. It began publishing as a four-page tabloid on 4 August 1852. Until it ceased publication in 1989, it was the oldest daily newspaper in the country.
Mount Taranaki is the second highest mountain in the North Island, and the dominant geographical feature of the region. A Māori legend says that Mount Taranaki previously lived with the Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu mountains of the central North Island but fled to its current location after a battle with Tongariro. A near-perfect cone, it ...
Stuff Limited (previously Fairfax New Zealand) is a privately held news media company operating in New Zealand. It operates Stuff, the country's largest news website, and owns nine daily newspapers, including New Zealand's second and third-highest circulation daily newspapers, The Post and The Press, and the highest circulation weekly, Sunday Star-Times. [1]
The Taranaki Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Initially known as New Plymouth Province , the province was renamed on 1 January 1859 as the Taranaki Province.
Cardiff was one of the constituent dairy co-operatives (the others being Eltham, Stratford, and Normanby) who combined to form the Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. in 1965. See records of the Cardiff Dairy Company (A392) / "Cardiff Co-operative Dairy Company (ARC2001-190)". Archived from the original on 14 October 2008
However, many buildings were damaged in the First Taranaki War of 1860. The town was abandoned and residents were forced to move to nearby New Plymouth. Hurworth Cottage was the only building standing in the area after the war in 1861, but its floor had been set afire. [1] Atkinson did not return to the settlement until 1865.
Mount Taranaki (Māori: Taranaki Maunga), formerly Mount Egmont, is a dormant stratovolcano and legal person in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] At 2,518 metres (8,261 ft), it is the second highest mountain in the North Island, after Mount Ruapehu .