Newspapers in Tauranga moments in history

Rivals to the Bay of Plenty Times 1881-1892 as listed in the Bay of Plenty Times, 2 September 1892

• Advertiser - James Galbraith
• Evening News - Rhodes Bros
• Evening Star - Crawford
• The Guardian - Brown Bros
• Little 'Un - Rhodes Bros
• Mail - R. Henry
• Telegraph - E.M. Edgecumbe

See also: Bay of Plenty Times; Tauranga Record.

General notes:

• Newspaper office attack after Battle at Pukehinahina (Gate Pā). 'Supplementary summary for England and Australia', Daily Southern Cross, 7 June 1864, p. 3.
• Tauranga Argus Volume 1 Number 1 on 1 December 1866. Paper printed and published every Saturday by Walter Isaac Donchaisse, Tauranga.
• Tauranga Argus has now changed hands. Number 1, Volume 1 of Tauranga Record now takes it's place. Printed by Abraham Warbrick on 15 June 1867. Tauranga Record, 13 July 1867.
• Tauranga Argus printed in a building in the Militia Camp. Court case re theft of type. Tauranga Record, 27 July 1867.
• NZUPA and Anglo Austrian Telegraph to - direct cable telegrams from London etc. 13 November 1872.
• Mr Broomfield advises Bay of Plenty Times that he intends to start a daily paper in Tauranga etc. Bay of Plenty Times, 25 October 1881.
• The proprietors of the Evening Post wish to inform the public that they have sold the issue of that paper to Mr James McNaughton. All intending subscribers are requested to apply to him, or the Publishing Office, Harrington Street. H.H. De Bourbel, Manager. Bay of Plenty Times, 29 December 1883.
• We acknowledge receipt of the first number of Te Waka Māori, a small size 'native' paper. It is well printed and we suppose intended to be issued as a monthly record. Bay of Plenty Times, 7 February 1884.
• Death of Elizabeth Kitchen. Her husband published the first Auckland newspaper, in 1842 was connected with the Chronicle. Bay of Plenty Times, 18 December 1884.
• Mr George M. Johnston, formerly of this town, has been appointed to the post of Editor and Manager of 'The Northern Luminary', Bay of Islands. Mr Johnston was late partner of Mr Jas. Galbraith. Bay of Plenty Times, 31 December 1885.
• Mail ceases publication. Only Bay of Plenty Times left. Coromandel News, 24 April 1888, p. 3c.
• Mr Henry is moving his Evening News plant to Paeroa in order to start a newspaper there. Bay of Plenty Times, 25 November 1891.
• C. La Roche of the Tauranga Herald is soliciting for a share of the Borough's advertising. Bay of Plenty Times, 8 December 1899.
• A.O. Field versus C. La Roche re Tauranga Herald. Bay of Plenty Times, 21 March 1900.

1990s

• Newspaper story goes back to 1866. Bay News, 6 May 1992, p. 14.