It’s time for a change and we know readers and advertisers will love it.
From next week, the Howick and Pakuranga Times is changing, with a new look which embraces our vibrant community.
Global and national economic pressures on newsprint costs, supply chain impacts and increased fuel pricing affecting delivery has forced us to adopt a more efficient and acceptable way to continue to bring the news to you, something we successfully managed to do during Covid-19 lockdowns via the popular www.times.co.nz website and electronic newsletters.
The most dramatic change is the cessation of deliveries to letterboxes.
Instead, we will be making the papers available each Wednesday at more than 60 pick-up boxes throughout the community including here at the Times’ office in Howick.
These will be topped up again each Friday.
Sadly, after 51 years, we will be saying goodbye to paper delivery people.
These moves in themselves will drastically reduce our carbon footprint while wastage through excess copies etc will also disappear, but they also enable the paper to remain in print as demanded by our readers.
We are working hard to ensure papers are available at locations close to you throughout the east Auckland region.
The other big announcement is the merger of the Howick and Pakuranga Times and its sister publication, EastLife magazine.
It’s exciting as we will now incorporate all the excellent EastLife magazine content you’ve come to love as well as our usual news coverage focusing on our area from the Panmure Bridge/Pakuranga through to Beachlands/Maraetai and across to Botany/Ormiston and encompassing East Tamaki/Highbrook.
We hope you’ll love the new format and welcome your feedback.
