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New Zealand Sportsman, 1946

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<em>New Zealand Sportsman</em>, 1946

The first issue of the New Zealand Sportsman proudly announced that the magazine was ‘devoted entirely to sport’. Published by businessman and sports fanatic Jack Fairburn, the Sportsmanwas produced until 1960.

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Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury

Reference: The New Zealand Sportsman 1, no. 1 (July 1946)

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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – Parallel worlds: mid-20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/29226/new-zealand-sportsman-1946 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.