Buoyed by the success of the Sun newspaper in Christchurch, its proprietors decided in the mid-1920s to start a similar paper in Auckland. The Sun had been founded in 1914 by the Australian journalist Edward C Huie (1876-1967) who left the Evening News in Christchurch, frustrated that they were not interested in his ideas about livelier journalism and layout. He based his new paper on London’s Daily Mail.

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Latest additions to Newspapers (January 2024):

• Dominion (1935-1945)
• Southland Times (1937-1945)