The Evening Post (New Zealand)
Defunct newspaper based in Wellington, New Zealand
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Printing and publishing is in the linked building at the rear fronting onto Boulcott Street. Returns for the 1928 general election are visible on the front of the building.
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The Evening Post (8 February 1865 – 6 July 2002) was an afternoon metropolitan daily newspaper based in Wellington , New Zealand . It was founded in 1865 by Dublin -born printer, newspaper manager and leader-writer Henry Blundell , who brought his large family to New Zealand in 1863.
With his partner from what proved to be a false-start at Havelock , David Curle, who left the partnership that July, Henry and his three sons printed with a hand-operated press and distributed Wellington's first daily newspaper, The Evening Post , on 8 February 1865. Operating from 1894 as Blundell Bros Limited, his sons and their descendants continued the very successful business which dominated its circulation area. [1]
While The Evening Post was remarkable in not suffering the rapid circulation decline of evening newspapers elsewhere it was decided in 1972 to merge [2] ownership with that of the never-as-successful politically conservative morning paper, The Dominion , which belonged to listed Wellington Publishing Company Limited, within a new holding company — Independent Newspapers Limited . [1]
Wellington Publishing Company Limited was, in 1964, one of the first parts of Rupert Murdoch 's international empire, later News Corporation . [ citation needed ]
The last Post
The Evening Post ' s last publication was on the afternoon of 6 July 2002 and the next day the morning-published sister-publication, The Dominion , displayed its new name— The Dominion Post . [1]
At the end of June 2003, Murdoch's publishing business was sold to Australia-based Fairfax and the proceeds invested in New Zealand's Sky Network Television Limited . [ citation needed ]
References
- 1 2 3 "The Evening Post, Papers Past , New Zealand National Library" . Archived from the original on 20 February 2012 . Retrieved 22 September 2008 .
- ↑ "Letter from the Dominion's chairman, Morvyn Williams. The merger was accomplished by one company buying the other's shares" . Archived from the original on 28 June 2023 . Retrieved 28 June 2023 .
- ↑ "Stuff to put up first paywalls for news" . Radio New Zealand . 27 April 2023. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023 . Retrieved 28 April 2023 .