The first issue of the Huntly Press and District Gazette was printed in May 1910 by James Henry Claridge (1862-1946). Claridge was a compositor, editor and publisher who founded a number of newspapers in New Zealand including the Eltham Argus and Kaponga District Advertiser (1897), the Martinborough Star (1904), the Waipukurau Press (1905), the Taumarunui Press (1906), the Morrinsville Star and Matamata Gazette (1911), the Otorohanga Times (1912), and the Tuakau Press (1916). His most unsuccessful paper was the Pio Post (1920), which only lasted for one issue.

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Latest additions to Newspapers (January 2024):

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