The New Zealand Gazette

The New Zealand Gazette is considered the first newspaper in New Zealand.

History

Your first issue was still being produced in London on 21 August 1839. Its editor was Samuel Revans. Eight months later the publication of the second edition. She appeared on April 18, 1840 but in Petone, thus already in New Zealand. After 20 issues Revan added the name of the newspaper " and Britannia Spectator" added.

Revan had originally been hired by the British Kolonisierungstheoretiker Edward Gibbon Wakefield to create a newspaper for the colonization of the New Zealand Company. Revan did this so thoroughly that the sheet was perceived by the public as the voice of the New Zealand Company and this all the more since Revan clearly struck with his newspaper in the conflict between the New Zealand Company with the administration of the colony New Zealand on the side of the Company. This eventually led to the 1842 New Zealand Colonist was brought out in opposition to the Gazette.

In September 1844, the New Zealand Gazette was set to excite with little fanfare. The staff of the sheet found new employers in the newspapers New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, which appeared a few weeks later in Wellington new.

New Zealand Government Gazette

1841, the government of the then colony New Zealand were in turn published a newspaper, which was named New Zealand Government Gazette, but was published in Kororareka. Later, after the New Zealand Gazette had disappeared from the market, one designated the official newspaper of the Government in New Zealand Gazette to.

The New Zealand Gazette is today the official announcement Journal of the New Zealand Government and can be seen, since 2000 in PDF version, since September 1993 Online.

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