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{{Short description|Newspaper in Meekatharra, Western Australia, active 1909 - 1947}}
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'''''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette''''', also published as '''''Meekatharra Miner''''' and '''''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette''''', was a weekly English language newspaper published in [[Meekatharra, Western Australia|Meekatharra]], [[Western Australia]]. It was distributed to Meekathara, [[Nannine, Western Australia|Nannine]], [[Cue, Western Australia|Cue]], [[Geraldton]], and the [[Murchison (Western Australia)|Murchison]] and [[Pilbara]] regions.
== History ==
''Meekatharra Miner'' was published from 7 August 1909 to 6 July 1918, by Daniel James Colgan. It was continued by the ''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette'', which ran from 8 July 1918 to 18 March 1920. It was printed and published for the Telegraph Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd, by Stephen Thorne Upham.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette |Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette (WA : 1918 - 1920)]] |location=WA |date=26 July 1918 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
A daily one page supplement was published between 2 January 1920 and 24 September 1921.
In the last issue of the ''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette'' there was a small public notice advising readers that the newspaper would be discontinued from that date, citing the reason for the closure as a shortage of staff and the inability to purchase spare parts.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212689934 |title=Public Notice! |newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette |Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette (WA : 1920 - 1947)]] |location=WA |date=31 January 1947 |accessdate=19 January 2016 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
== Availability ==
Issues of the ''Meekatharra Miner'' (1909-1918), the ''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette'' (1918-1920), and the ''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette'' (1920-1947) have been digitised as part of the [[Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program]],<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|title = Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program|date = |access-date = 19 January 2016|website = National Library of Australia|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> a project of the [[National Library of Australia]] in cooperation with the [[State Library of Western Australia]].
A daily supplement was published between 2 January 1920 and 24 September 1921.
Hard copy and microfilm copies of the ''Meekatharra Miner'',<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1763366~S2#.Vp3sZPl94dU|title = Meekatharra Miner|date = |access-date = 19 January 2016|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2811394~S2#.Vp3snPl94dU|title = Meekatharra Miner [microform]|date = |access-date = 19 January 2016|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> the ''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette'',<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1744710~S2#.Vp3rGvl94dU|title = The Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette|date = |access-date = 16 January 2016|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2811395~S2#.Vp3rcvl94dU|title = The Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette [microform]|date = |access-date = 19 January 2016|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> and the ''Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette''<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1744709~S2#.Vp3pyPl94dU|title = The Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette|date = |access-date = 19 January 2016|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2811505~S2#.Vp3qZvl94dU|title = The Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette [microform]|date = |access-date = 19 January 2016|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> are also available at the State Library of Western Australia.
== See also ==
* [[List of newspapers in Australia]]
* [[List of newspapers in Western Australia]]
* [[Pilbara newspapers]]
== References ==
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== External links ==
*Available at [[Trove]]:
** {{trove newspaper|977|Meekatharra Miner|WA: 1909–1918|at=off}}
** {{trove newspaper|1115|Daily Telegraph and North Murchison Gazette|WA: 1918–1920|at=off}}
** {{trove newspaper|1114|Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette|WA: 1920–1947|at=off}}
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[[Category:Defunct newspapers of the Mid West region of Western Australia]]