Subject guides: Newspapers: Oceania

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Papers Past We've launched a new version of Papers Past, which has been providing access to millions of pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers since 2001. The new site delivers a number of major changes that bring the service into the present and prepares it for the future.

New Zealand herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
Publication Date: 1863 - present
Date: 1863- present
Library Holdings: MICROFILM 5404, Nov. 1863 to Dec. 1866
Online access available from 1986- present

Evening post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Date: 1865 - 2002
Online available from 1996-2002
The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Publication Date: 1861 - present
Library Holdings: MICROFILM 5406, May 1861- December 1966
Online available from 1996

Weekly news (Auckland, N.Z. :1863)
Publication Date: 1863 - 1877
Later Title: New Zealand weekly news
Notes: Title on microfilm boxes: The New Zealand weekly news
Holdings: Matheson Library Store MICROFILM 5405 1863-66
The New Zealand graphic and ladies journal
Date: 1891 - 1909
Auckland weekly news. Christmas number.
Date: 1900 - 19??
Library Holdings: 1905-7, 1911-13.
Weekly news (Auckland, N.Z. : 1934)
Publication Date: 1934 - 1964
Holdings: Rare Books General Collection ef 052 W394.2 Oct. 12, 1935
New Zealand herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
Publication Date: 1863 - present
Date: 1863- present
Library Holdings: MICROFILM 5404, Nov. 1863 to Dec. 1866
Online access available from 1986- present
The evening post: Christmas number
Date: 1903 - 19??
Library Holdings: 1904 only
The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Publication Date: 1861 - present
Library Holdings: MICROFILM 5406, May 1861- December 1966
Online available from 1996

Nilaidat
Date: 1968 - 1971
Library Holdings: v. 1, no. 7 (1968) to v. 2, no. 6 (1969) ; Lacks: v. 2, no. 5 (1969)
South Pacific post
Date: 1950 - 1969
Library Holdings: 1966 to June 1969 ; incomplete
Papua New Guinea post-courier
Date: 1969-2016
Library Holdings: Jul 1981 - Dec 1986
Full text available online via Access World News 19 May 2003-2016
Date: 1972 - present
Notes: includes paper index 1972-1974, 1976-1986 at Microfilm 3306 - title on spine: Post courier selective index