BLUNDELL, HENRY (1814-78) was born in Dublin and brought up to the printing trade there. He was for 27 years connected with the management of the Evening Mail before coming to Victoria in 1860. In the following year he came to Otago and was engaged for some time on the Lyttelton Times and on the Otago Daily Times (1863). On the outbreak of the Wakamarina goldfields he moved with his family to Havelock, where with David Curle he founded the Havelock Mail. The rush having died down they took the plant to Wellington and established the Evening Post (5 Feb 1865) as a small four-page sheet. This was the first attempt to run a daily newspaper and it had as opposition the existing tri-weeklies, the Independent and the Advertiser. Curle shortly withdrew and Blundell with his sons developed the Post to a position of sound prosperity. He was a frank, quiet man, of genial temperament and unblemished integrity. In 1874 he retired from the business and he died on 15 Jun 1878.

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