Collie Mail

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Collie Mail
Founder(s)Mr H.E. Reading
Founded1908
CityCollie
CountryAustralia
ISSN 1321-5361
Website http://www.colliemail.com.au/

The Collie Mail was established at Collie, Western Australia in 1908 by Mr H.E. Reading, who had previously established The Southern Times in Bunbury. The paper was published bi-weekly to share the news and information of the new coal mining town of Collie. [1]

Contents

The distribution area of the Collie Mail covers Collie, Bunbury, Darkan, Donnybrook and Duranillan. [2]

The Collie Mail is now owned by the Fairfax organisation.[ citation needed ]

Variant titles

The Collie Mail has had a number of different titles over the years it has been in print: [2]

1908-1912Collie mail : the miners' and timber workers' advocate
1913-Sep 1917Collie mail and Cardiff, Lyall's Mill, Collie Burn, Shotts and Worsley gazette
Aug 1918-1 Mar 1919Collie mail and coalfields miner
8 Mar 1919-May 1952 Collie mail and W.A. coalfields miner

Availability

Issues (1914 - 1918) of this newspaper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, [3] a project of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of Western Australia.

Hard copy and microfilm copies of the Collie Mail are also available at the State Library of Western Australia. [2] [4]

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References

  1. Battye, James Sykes (1985). Cyclopedia of Western Australia (Facsimile ed.). State Library of Western Australia: Hesperian Press. p. 986. ISBN   0859050726 . Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Collie mail [microform]". State Library of Western Australia catalogue. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  3. "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  4. "The Collie mail". State Library of Western Australia catalogue. Retrieved 29 October 2015.