The Daily Telegraph (New Zealand)

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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph Logo Napier NZ.jpg
description New Zealand daily newspaper
language English
First edition February 1, 1871
attitude September 1999

The Daily Telegraph was a regional newspaper in New Zealand based in Napier . It was discontinued in 1999.

history

The Daily Telegraph first appeared on February 1, 1871. Co-founder and editor was the London journalist Richard Halkett Lord . With a population of almost 2,200, Napier was probably not prepared for Lord's liberal views and thoughts regarding equal rights and opportunities for all. The interests of the city's settlers, who wanted to participate in the division of the vast land of the province of Hawke's Bay , were too strong . The paper therefore met with little acceptance and thus after 12 months with financial difficulties, while the conservative competitor Hawke's Bay Herald was able to switch from the bi-weekly publication to the daily edition of its newspaper. But the Telegraph was saved with the financial support of four investors, none of them newspaper experts. Lord held out until 1893 when he was replaced by Robert Price , also a journalist.

The original edition of the Telegraph , which was sold for two pence at the time, had four pages each with five columns and was printed on a format of 48 × 34 cm. The typesetting was done by hand and the printing was still done on a hand-operated printing press . Recovered from its difficulties in the founding years, the Telegraph had a circulation of 1,500 copies in 1879. The paper suffered another setback on December 18, 1886, when the newspaper house on Tennyson Street burned down completely and was only able to publish a small edition for months.

Edward Knowles , one of the original four investors, took over the Telegraph in 1891, but sold it in 1908 to an Auckland newspaper group controlled by the families of Henry Brett , Thomson W. Leys and William J. Geddis . The sheet remained in the hands of the three newspaper families until 1982, but was then merged under the Hawkes Bay News Limited with the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune , which emerged from the merger of the Hawke's Bay Herald and the Hawke's Bay Tribune . Both newspapers initially kept their names and continued to produce their own editions.

In 1984 Hawkes Bay News Limited was sold to New Zealand News Limited , the publisher of the Auckland Star . At that time, the Daily Telegraph was the first daily newspaper in New Zealand to switch its editions to color printing. In 1988 New Zealand News finally sold its Hawke's Bay newspapers to Wilson & Horton , which in turn was bought by APN New Zealand in 1996 and is now part of the Australian media group APN News & Media .

In 1999 the Daily Telegraph and the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune were discontinued as daily newspapers and the editorial offices were merged to form the newly formed Hawke's Bay Today .

The third building of the newspaper (1933)

Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931

Two days after the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Daily Telegraph , a major earthquake devastated the city on February 3, 1931 . The newspaper's house was completely destroyed and an employee of the newspaper lost his life. Eight emergency editions of the Telegraph were published by another newspaper, until after three weeks a temporary solution was found for the printing works in a school.

In 1933 the third building of the Daily Telegraph was constructed on Tennyson Street in Napier . The building, which was listed in the New Zealand Historic Places Trust's Category 1 for Special Historic Buildings on September 21, 1989 , is now well preserved and used as an office building by a real estate company.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daily Telegraph Logo . National Library of New Zealand , accessed February 24, 2014 .
  2. ^ Daily Telegraph . National Library of New Zealand , accessed February 24, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Daily Telegraph - Logo . New Zealand Historic Place Trust , accessed February 24, 2014 .
  4. ^ New Zealand Companies Office . Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment , accessed February 24, 2014 .
  5. ^ Hawke's Bay Newspapers after the 1931 Earthquake . Hastings Library , archived from the original on February 28, 2014 ; accessed on February 15, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).