NBR founder Henry Newrick's 'last hurrah' as he launches new mag

Henry Newrick. Photo / Bevan Conley Photo / Bevan Conley

The man who launched the National Business Review from Whanganui as a 23-year-old is ready for one 'last hurrah' in the publishing world.

Whanganui author and publisher Henry Newrick has a new quarterly magazine in the pipeline.

Newrick was just 23 when he launched the National Business Review and his overseas career has included work as an adviser to a company hunting for lost treasure on Spanish shipwrecks.

Now 73, he has returned to his beloved hometown of Whanganui where he published his coffee table book From the Sea to the Mountain in November last year.

The magazine Senior Living, he says, will be his "last hurrah" in publishing and he anticipates it will appeal to his contemporaries in the same way that his first venture did 50 years ago.

The first issue of Senior Living will be launched in December.

The first issue of Senior Living will be distributed in December. Photo / Bevan Conley