''The New Zealand Times'' was a New Zealand daily newspaper published in

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from 1874 to 1927.

Background

The newspaper was founded by Julius Vogel, who had had involvement with newspapers as an editor or owner since his goldfield days in

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, in 1856. Vogel was a correspondent for ''

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'' before he edited the ''Dunolly Advertiser'', which became the ''Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser''. He then founded the ''Inglewood and Sandy Creek Advertiser''. When the Victorian gold rush lost its momentum and after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Victorian Parliament in the Avoca district in August 1861, Vogel moved to

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. There, he worked for the ''Otago Colonist'' but within a short time, he co-founded the ''

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''. Vogel owned the newspaper until 1866 when it was taken over by a company, but stayed on as editor for another two years. When he lost the editorship, he set up a competing newspaper, the ''New Zealand Sun''. This newspaper failed within a few months and Vogel became editor and general manager of the ''

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'' in

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in April 1869. His family moved from Dunedin in May 1869. In October 1873, Vogel set up The New Zealand Times Newspaper Company Ltd. His co-directors were

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, George Hunter,

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, Frederick Augustus Krull (German Consul), and Edward William Mills). Later that year, this company bought ''

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''.

History

The first issue of ''The New Zealand Times'' was published on 1 June 1874. In its editorial and via the newspaper's masthead, it was announced that this publication would now incorporate ''The Wellington Independent''. Like its predecessor, it was a daily morning paper. Vogel's idea was to establish a national newspaper but this did not happen. Chantrey Harris bought the newspaper in 1880 and owned it until 1890, when he sold to William Baldwin. When Baldwin decided to retire to Australia the Liberal Party purchased the newspaper from him. Both John Ballance and William Pember Reeves were directors during that time. Competition arrived in 1907 with The Dominion, another morning newspaper but conservative-leaning.

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bought the newspaper in 1912. ''The Dominion'' won the market and its parent company, the Wellington Publishing Company, bought ''The New Zealand Times'' and shut it down. The last edition was published on Saturday, 29 January 1927.

Contributors

Notable contributors to ''The New Zealand Times'' include: *

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References

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