Samuel Revans had published the first issue of the New Zealand Gazette in London in August 1839, just before the New Zealand Company’s emigrant ships departed. The second edition was published in New Zealand by him a month after he arrived in Port Nicholson (Wellington).
‘Samuel Revans prints first newspaper ‘, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/samuel-revans-prints-first-newspaper, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 20-Oct-2020
You can view the newspaper on Papers Past, which delivers digitised full-text New Zealand and Pacific newspapers, magazines and journals, books, and other formats, from the 19th and 20th centuries. This includes ‘Niupepa 1842-1933’, a collection of newspapers published in Māori or for a Māori readership.
If you want to read more recent newspapers or magazines online access PressReader through the Ara library website databases list.
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