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Waihi Daily Telegraph

New Zealand newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ56278252 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Waihi Daily Telegraph was a newspaper published in Waikato, New Zealand. It was published from 1901 to 1951. It replaced the Waihi Chronicle.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Waihi Daily Telegraph” as new Zealand newspaper. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 1951—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901-03-04. The account is most persuasive where Waihi, Daily and Telegraph can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as new Zealand newspaper. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56278252. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “Waihi Daily Telegraph” 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.