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Pasifika Times

Auckland newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ7142117 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Pasifika Times was an Auckland-based newspaper circulated in Niue, Tonga, and Auckland. It partnered with Niue Economic Review in 2000.

The newspaper ceased publishing in 2002, and editor Peter Moala said the group would continue publishing the Taimi'O Tonga, the Cook Island Star and the Samoa Independent newspapers.

Editorial summary

“Pasifika Times” enters the record as auckland newspaper. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pasifika, Times and Auckland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pasifika, Times and Auckland.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pasifika Times” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.