Walcha News
The Walcha News, originally published as The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate, is an English language newspaper published in Walcha, New South Wales.
History
[edit]Witness was the first newspaper published in Walcha in 1889 founded by Mr. F. Townshend.[1] The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate was published from 1904-1932 in opposition to the Witness which it then absorbed in 1928.[2] It became The Walcha News[3] in 1932 and is still published today. Erle Lewis ("Blue") Hogan managed and edited The Walcha News from 1950-1977.[2]
Digitisation
[edit]The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Walcha newspaper changes hands". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 January 1928. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ a b Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country conscience : a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995. Canberra City, A.C.T.: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 234. ISBN 0646402706.
- ^ "Walcha News Online". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "Newspaper Titles". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
External links
[edit]- Walcha News
- The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate (NSW : 1904 - 1907; 1927) at Trove
- The Walcha News (NSW : 1932 - 1935) at Trove
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