1839 First newspaper
Samuel Revans was a trained and experienced printer working with the New Zealand Company's London operations. When he decided to move to Wellington, he raised a loan from merchants backing the Company to buy the equipment and supplies for a printing establishment. The first issue of his newspaper, the New Zealand Gazette (August 1839), was actually published from the Company's London address before the New Zealand Company's first ships left for Petone. It folded in 1844.
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