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Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
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West Australian newspapers
Charles Harper
Charles Harper is the name of:*Charles Harper , pastoralist, newspaper proprieter and politician in colonial Western Australia*Charles Harper , Western Australian businessman and mayor of two local governments...
and John Winthrop Hackett, the co-owners of The West Australian
The West Australian
The West Australian is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by ASX-listed Seven West Media . The West is published in tabloid format, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times, a News Limited publication...
, the State's major daily paper. It was printed by James Gibbney at the paper's office in St Georges Terrace, Perth
St Georges Terrace, Perth
St Georges Terrace is the main street in the city of Perth, Western Australia. It runs parallel to the Swan River and forms the major arterial road through the central business district....
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Considerable numbers of regional and local newspapers in Western Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries included the word 'Mail' in their names.
West Australian Newspapers management experimented with a variety of formats in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including the Weekend Mail for five years (see publication details below).
The paper was renamed to The Countryman in 1955, which together with the Rural Press
Rural Press
Rural Press Limited was an Australian media company which owned approximately 170 newspaper and magazine titles, The Canberra Times being the most prominent. These were predominantly in rural Australia, though it also owned a number of agricultural publications in the United States and New Zealand...
owned Farm Weekly are today the two major weekly rural papers in the state.
Western Mail Limited
In 1980 the name was resurrected with a second version, published by Western Mail Limited. The push for a new paper was made by Robert Holmes à CourtRobert Holmes à Court
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was an entrepreneur who became Australia's first businessman worth over a billion dollars before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990.Holmes à Court was one of the world's most feared corporate raiders through the 1980s, having built his empire...
and Bell Group
Bell Group
-Introduction:The Bell Group is a group of companies, service industries and educational institutions in India founded in 1952, by Mr.A.Chelladhurai...
following his failed takeover attempt of The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
(UK).
The venture was wound up in 1988.
Western Mail (WA Newspapers)
The Western Mail. Perth, W.A: West Australian Newspapers.- Vol. 1, no. 1 (19 December 1885) - Vol. 70, no. 3403 (20 January 1955)
Days of issues
- Weekly on Thursday 3 July 1919 – 20 January 1955.
- Weekly on Friday 27 September 1912 – 27 June 1919.
- Weekly on Saturday 16 September 1899 – 21 September 1912.
- Weekly on Friday 21 June 1895 – 8 September 1899.
- Weekly on Saturday 19 December. 1885 - 15 June 1895.
Special Issues and supplement
- Annual Christmas edition - 1908-1955
- State Centenary no. 1929;
- Historical calendar of Western Australia 1829-1929.1929. Centenary number of the Western Mail, July 1929.
- Centenary of the West Australian 1933
- Christmas issue published each year from 1897
- Countryman's Magazine (Vol. 1, no. 1 (18 August 1949) - Vol. 2, no. 8 (9 April 1951)
- Women's Magazine (21 March 1946 – 23 October 1947).
Weekend Mail. Perth [W.A.] : West Australian Newspapers Ltd.
- Known as Weekend Mail - TV from 5 September 1959 to 1960.
- Vol. 1, no. 1 (22 January 1955)-v. 6, no. 290 (30 July 1960).
- Weekly on Saturday.
- Annual supplement: Weekend Mail Annual (1955–1960)
Western Mail (Western Mail Ltd)
The Western Mail, Perth, W.A : Western Mail Ltd., 1980-1988.- Vol. 1, no. 1 (8 November 1980) - no. 374 (31 December - 3 January 1988).
- Weekly on Saturday.