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Newspapers on Microfilm

Title Holdings Location
Akaroa Mail 1877 - 1939 Cabinet 14
Canterbury Standard 1854 - 1860 Cabinet 14
Canterbury Times 1885 - 1917 Cabinet 8 - 9
Central Canterbury News (previously Ellesmere Guardian) 1984 - 1985 Cabinet 9
Christchurch Times see Lyttelton Times    
Dominion Sunday Times see Sunday Star Times    
Ellesmere Guardian (changes to Central Canterbury News 1984) 1891 - 1983
[incomplete]
Cabinet 9
Guardian and Canterbury Advertiser 1852 Cabinet 1
(same reel as below)
Kaikōura Herald and East Coast Advertiser 1869 - 1872 Cabinet 1
(same reel as above)
Lyttelton Times
(Christchurch Times, 1929 (Aug 1) - 1935 (Jun 29)
1851 - 1935 Cabinets 1- 3
Nelson Examiner 1842 - 1862 Cabinet 14
New Zealand Times see Sunday Star Times    
New Zealand Truth 1906 - 1955 Cabinet 7
Press 1861 - Cabinet 3 - 6
Standard and North Canterbury Guardian 1890 - 1916 Cabinet 9
Star
N.B. A retrospective microfilming programme is in progress: Star holdings
1868 -
[incomplete]
Cabinets 10 - 13
Sun 1914 - 1935 Cabinet 9 - 10
Sunday Star Times (Previous titles; New Zealand Times 1981 - 1986; Dominion Sunday Times 1987 - 1992; Sunday Times 1992 - 1994; all these titles are held on microfilm 1981 -) 1994 - Cabinet 14
Sunday Times see Sunday Star Times    
Weekly Press 1865 - 1928 Cabinet 8
West Coast Times 1865 - 1916 Cabinet 9

Notes:

  • Overall year dates are listed for most titles i.e. not month and day as well
  • Microfilm holdings may be of a partial run of a newspaper, not the complete run. Runs may lack some issues
  • Microfilm of The Press is from the start date of the newspaper and is received currently
  • Microfilm of the Sunday Star Times is received currently
  • There is in progress a retrospective microfilming programme of The Star

For enquiries about newspapers or for newspapers on microfilm that are not on this list, or enquiries about holdings of newspapers on microfilm, please contact the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre.