• Source: Auckland Weekly News

The Auckland Weekly News, formerly the Weekly News, was a weekly newspaper published in Auckland and posted around the country between 1861 and 1971.
Over 130,000 images from the paper, on the Auckland Libraries website, were mostly digitised about 2010.




History



The Weekly News was founded by the Daily Southern Cross on 25 November 1863, primarily for country readers who couldn't get the paper every day. It was followed on 7 April 1866 by the Weekly Herald, a similar paper from the publisher of the New Zealand Herald. Wilson and Horton, who published the Herald, planned the paper originally for circulation to rural areas, but it was then distributed everywhere. It seems that there was an earlier Auckland Weekly News (AWN), as the publisher asked the Auckland City Board to advertise with it in June 1863 and some sources say AWN started in 1861.
The paper had its origins with the Wilson and Horton families. In 1863, William Chisholm Wilson, an Auckland printer, withdrew from his partnership in the New Zealander to start the New Zealand Herald. In 1876, Alfred Horton, a journalist and printer, sold his interest in the Thames Advertiser and bought the Daily Southern Cross. In 1877 the sons of Horton and Wilson merged the papers, Weekly News and Weekly Herald, under the Weekly News title, with a combined circulation close to 5,000 (by 1934 circulation of the Christmas issue was over 65,000). The earliest AWN in a public collection dates from 1877. In 1878 illustrations were added to the masthead. It seems the Weekly News title was again prefixed by Auckland from 1880. By 1882 other illustrations were included. In July 1913 the illustrated section was expanded when the Weekly Graphic was merged with AWN. As well as Auckland events, AWN covered national and international news. From May 1898 AWN included a glossy centre-spread supplement with black and white photographs. It had a pink cover and by 1968 had colour photos, though the shades of pink varied. To reflect their coverage in 1934 they changed their name back to Weekly News and to New Zealand Weekly News in 1965. The format changed when colour printing started. AWN closed in 1971.




Contributors


William Beattie 1894-1920
George Bourne 1909?-1924
Harold Brainsby 1938-1952
Leslie Hinge 1919-1940
Thelma Kent -1946
Trevor Lloyd 1905-1936
Katrine Mackay 1902-1908
William McCullough 1861-1864
Gordon Minhinnick 1930-1971
Harry Rountree 1899-1901
Mona Tracy 1904-1912
Keith Waite -1949
Dorothy Wall 1937-1941
Jessie Weston
Ruth Wilkinson 1920s-30s
Henry Winkelmann 1893-1928




External links


1899 front cover




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