New Zealand Advertiser

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New Zealand Advertiser

description second New Zealand newspaper
language English
First edition May 1840
attitude December 1840

The New Zealand Advertiser was the second oldest daily newspaper in New Zealand and also the precursor for public notices of the then colonial government of New Zealand.

history

The New Zealand Advertiser first appeared in May 1840 and was published weekly by GA Eager and Reverend Barzillai Quaife in Kororāreka , later Russell . The paper owed its existence to the colonial government, which the newspaper used for its public announcements. The New Zealand Advertiser therefore received the addition of the Bay of Islands Gazette . At the same time, however, the newspaper makers made themselves unpopular with the government because they campaigned for the concerns of the settlers and criticized the government.

The colonial government reacted promptly by applying the anti-press law of New South Wales from 1827, since the young colony of New Zealand was still subject to New South Wales legislation and thus the press could be disciplined. The application of the law meant economic ruin for the New Zealand Advertiser . In December 1840, after only 27 issues and seven months of life, Quaife discontinued the paper.

The colonial government, however, brought out their own newspaper on December 30, 1840, the New Zealand Government Gazette .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Coupland Harding : The Auckland Press . In: Robert Coupland Harding (Ed.): Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review . Volume 4, Issue 47 . Wellington November 29, 1890, p.  133 (English, online [accessed March 4, 2014]).
  2. ^ New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette - newspaper logo . National Library of New Zealand , accessed March 4, 2014 .
  3. ^ New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette . National Library of New Zealand , accessed March 4, 2014 .