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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.

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History

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 1932and is still published today. Erle Lewis ("Blue") Hogan managed and edited The Walcha News from 1950-1977. [2]

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. [4]

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References

  1. "Walcha newspaper changes hands". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 January 1928. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. "Walcha News Online" . Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  4. "Newspaper Titles". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 11 August 2015.