Waikato Times

The Waikato Times is New Zealand's fifth largest regional daily newspaper published. The newspaper is now part of Fairfax Media Group, but has its editorial office nor in Hamilton.

History

The first edition of the Waikato Times was released on 2 May 1872, the addition and Thames Valley Gazette newspaper logo. Their editors were George Jones and Henry Holloway, two experienced newspaperman from New Zealand that initially produced the sheet in Ngaruawahia for Waikato.

In 1875 they transferred the seat of the newspaper to Hamilton and called it from then on only Waikato Times. At the same time changed the ownership, Jones left the paper and together with attorney Frederick Whitaker from Auckland took over the Bank of New Zealand henceforth the control of the newspaper house.

1878, still owned by the Bank, led George Edgecumbe, a local politician, the business of the leaf, but separated in 1896, the Bank of him and sold the Times to James Shiner Bond, a later mayor of Hamilton and owner of the Waikato Advocate. Edgecumbe founded as a reaction then the Waikato Argus. Bond, however, led his Waikato Advocate along with the Times and gave his new newspaper under the name of the Waikato Times as evening paper out.

After 20 years of competition of Waikato Argus and the Times were finally merged on September 10, 1915, and continued under the name Waikato Times as an independent newspaper.

Today

Since 2003, the Waikato Times is owned by the Australian media group Fairfax Media, who along with 14 other New Zealand newspapers and media companies first brought together in the year of the sheet under the INL Publishing Limited and later integrated directly into the Fairfax Media.

After the Saturday edition of the newspaper was changed from the evening's appearance on the Morgendausgabe in 2003, this was done for appearing in the weekly editions until 5 September 2011.