HERALD MILESTONE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24000, 25 June 1941, Page 6

HERALD MILESTONE

24, OOOT H ISSUE As the serial number on page one indicates, to-day's issue of the Nkw Zkai.axp llKit\i n is ilie 2-I,oooth since the paper made its first appearance on November L'l, ISii.'i, just over 771 years ago. In a sense the 11kk.vlu's history goes back beyond this, almost to the beginnings of New Zealand journalism, for it's founder, the late Mr. W. C. Wilson, was a part-owner of the New Zealander. n paper which he helped to found in Auckland in 1845, and which he left. 18 years later to establish another for the promotion of political causes that lie had at heart. The llkhai.t), moreover, incorporated in 1877 the Daily Southern Cross, which had first appeared in 18IM and which was owned at the time of the amalgamation by the late Mr. A. G. Horton. The present company, Wilson and Morton, Limited, was formed in 1925. When the first number of the Hkkam) was published, Auckland had a population of only about 12,000. and there were 42,000 people in the Auckland Province. To-day the metropolitan area contains more than 221,000 people and the province about 575,000. These figures are reflected in the circulation of the paper, which now averages more than 80,000 daily.