The Evening Post (New Zealand)

The Evening Post (8 February 1865 – 6 July 2002) was an afternoon daily newspaper based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded in 1865 by Dublin-born printer and newspaper manager Henry Blundell, who moved his family to New Zealand in 1863.

Blundell started the paper with a partner named David Curle, but Curle left soon after. Blundell and his three sons printed and distributed Wellington’s first daily newspaper using a hand-operated press. The business grew very successful and was later run by Blundell’s sons and their families.

In 1972, The Evening Post merged with another Wellington paper called The Dominion. This happened under a new company called Independent Newspapers Limited. The Wellington Publishing Company, which owned The Dominion, had become part of Rupert Murdoch’s growing international media empire, later known as News Corporation, in 1964.

The last Post

The Evening Post stopped printing on the afternoon of 6 July 2002. The next day, its morning sister newspaper changed its name to The Dominion Post.

In June 2003, the company that owned the newspaper was sold to a business in Australia called Fairfax. In April 2023, The Dominion Post changed its name again to The Post.