In 1831 three employees of the now-defunct "Sydney Gazette", Ward Stephens, Frederick Stokes, and William McGarvie, founded "The Sydney Herald". In 1931 a Centenary Supplement (since digitised) was published. The original four-page weekly had a print run of 750. In 1840, the newspaper began to publish daily. In 1841, an Englishman named John Fairfax purchased the operation, renaming it "The Sydney Morning Herald" the following year. Fairfax, whose family were to control the newspaper for almost 150 years, based his editorial policies "upon principles of candour, honesty and honour. We have no wish to mislead; no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation."