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The Waikato Times started out as the tri-weekly Waikato Times and Thames Valley Gazette, first published by George Jones [4] on 2 May 1872 in Ngāruawāhia but moved to Hamilton in 1875. [5] It was then managed by Messrs Langbridge, Silver, E. M. Edgecumbe, George Edgecumbe and J. S. Bond, who ran a book and stationery shop and changed the ...
Isaac Coates was a relatively common name. Thus a 1942 Waikato Times obituary for Jane Meadway asserted that she was a daughter of Isaac Coates, "one of the best-known of the early settlers in the Waikato", though she was born at Akaroa in 1862, five years before the future mayor emigrated. [12]
Waikato Times and J S Bond store in 1906. In 1881 he started the Atlas Printing Company which also sold books and stationery. [1] It was affected by a large fire in Cambridge in 1889. [21] In July 1895 James started the Waikato Advocate, a weekly journal, which bought the masthead and property of the Waikato Times from the Bank of New Zealand ...
15 March – Shootings at two Christchurch mosques result in the deaths of 51 people. [9] [10] 16 March – Sky News Australia is pulled off the air by independently-owned Sky New Zealand. The decision was made after the channel refused to stop showing graphic video footage that had been live-streamed by the Christchurch shooter at the two ...
The Times increased its Bank of New Zealand loan, until the bank leased it back to George. However, in 1896, the bank sold the masthead and property to the Waikato Advocate. [21] George's version of events was set out in the first issue of his Waikato Argus, when he said he'd arranged with the late F. A. Whitaker M.P. to be the proprietor. [22]
Mary Jane Innes owned and operated Te Awamutu Brewery from 1877 (with her husband), and Waikato Breweries from 1889. In widowhood she launched the successful C. L. Innes and Company, in partnership with her eldest son Charles Lewis Innes. [2] She turned the company over to two of her sons in 1912.
John William Ellis MBE (1853 – 6 August 1918) was a New Zealand businessman and mayor of Hamilton from 1917 to 1918.. His progressive mother encouraged him to integrate with local Māori from an early age, which later facilitated his trading on the borders of the King Country and go on to gain rights to fell and mill timber.
Her first elected posts were the Waikato Hospital Board (1941) and the Hamilton Borough Council (1944). [3] She was Deputy Mayor of Hamilton in 1945. [1] Following the death of the incumbent MP for Hamilton, Frank Findlay, [4] she won the 1945 by-election to represent the electorate in the New Zealand Parliament, where she remained until her death 14 years later in 1959.