The Foundation of the New Zealand Press, 1839-1850

Abstract

I. ENGLISH BEGINNINGS The philosophy, inspiration and models of the New Zealand pioneer press were English. It was in England in the eighteen-thirties that the men preparing to establish free, British communities in New Zealand marked out the role of their press of the eighteen-forties: it was to be one of the chief instruments of colonisation, "the palladium of our Civil and Religious Liberties."