Sales of the New Zealand Herald averaged 207,299 in the latest audit of newspaper circulations - more than double that of any other daily paper.
The figure was for the six months to September 30, and represented a 1.8 per cent decline from 211,246 a year ago. The change followed increases to the daily and Weekend Herald's cover prices in March.
After an initial - expected - decrease, sales have recovered well.
The Audit Bureau of Circulation figures cover the six publishing days a week. The Weekend Herald, which is not separately audited, remains the country's highest selling newspaper by a significant margin.
Readership figures for the Herald released in July reinforced the paper's status as the country's leading daily.
Readership grew on every day of the week and on a typical day the New Zealand Herald will reach 597,000 people 15 and over. Each Weekend Herald is read by around 724,000 people.
Sales for the nationally circulating Sunday Star-Times rose 2.2 per cent to 210,519 in the ABC audit.
The Wellington daily the DominionPost saw its circulation drop 3.3 per cent from 101,511 to 98,107 and its sister paper the Press, in Christchurch, recorded a slight fall of 365 papers a day to 90,394.
The Otago Daily Times was the only metropolitan daily to go up in the period, a 2.3 per cent lift, from 44,099 to 45,143.
Herald sales double that of any other daily
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