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,
Christchurch 8140,
New Zealand.
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Newspapers on Microfilm

Title Holdings Location
Akaroa Mail 1877 - 1939 Cabinet 12
Canterbury Standard 1854 - 1860 Cabinet 12
Canterbury Times 1885 - 1917 (May) 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]
(film does not include every year)
Cabinet 9
Guardian and Canterbury Advertiser 1852 (lacks no 11) 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 (Jan 11) - 1935 (Jun 29) Cabinet 1- 3
Nelson Examiner 1842 (Mar 12) - 1862 Cabinet 12
New Zealand Times see
Sunday Star Times
   
New Zealand Truth 1906 (Jul) - 1955 (Dec) Cabinet 13
Press 1861 (May 25) - Cabinet 3 - 6
Standard and North Canterbury Guardian 1890 - 1916 (Jun 7) Cabinet 9
Star
Note: A retrospective microfilming programme is in progress: Star holdings
1868 (May 14) - 1929 (March 30);
1935 (Jul) - 1989 (June 15);
1998 - 2007 (Dec)
Cabinet 10 - 11
Sun 1914 (Feb 6) - 1935 (Jun 29) 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 (Mar 13) - 2006 (Jun 25) Cabinet 12
Sunday Times see
Sunday Star Times
   
The Times (London) 1975 - Cabinet 15
Weekly Press 1865 (F 18) - 1928 (Oc 24) 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.