The Recorder (Port Pirie)
The Port Pirie Recorder subtitled and North Western Mail was a newspaper published in Port Pirie, South Australia between 1898 and 1918
History
The town, later city, of Port Pirie had two newspapers, The Advocate and The Standard. They amalgamated to form The Port Pirie Recorder, first published on 9 July 1898, and appearing on Saturday and Wednesday mornings, printed and published by Charles Meyrick of the Port Pirie Standard and Alfred Edward South (1861 – 1 January 1934) of the Advocate.[1] Their office was on Alexander Street, Port Pirie.
Meyrick withdrew from the partnership around 1903 and on 6 April 1914 the paper became a daily.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). In 1919 South sold the paper to J. E. Davidson and it was renamed "The Recorder". A few months later a fire destroyed its Ellen Street premises, but with help from a local jobbing printer publication continued, albeit in a more modest form. Davidson went on to found News Limited, with The Recorder one of its stable, which included the Adelaide News, "The Barrier Miner" (Broken Hill) and Perth's Daily News.[2]
On 1 December 1931 the paper was sold to Horace Yelland (previously editor of The News and The Sunday Mail) and his company Recorder Proprietary Limited. On 14 August 1934 disaster once again struck when much of Port Pirie, The Recorder's premises included, was inundated by flood. Again, publication was reduced to a single sheet but four days later
The paper's worst disaster struck on 22 January 1941 when Pirie's Central Mission was destroyed by fire, which spread to the Recorder's offices causing immense damage. The paper went to a three issues per week.[3]
References
- ^ "MR. A. E. SOUTH DEAD". Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954). Port Pirie, SA: National Library of Australia. 4 January 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- ^ "The Port Pirie Recorder". Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail (SA : 1898 - 1918). SA: National Library of Australia. 9 July 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- ^ "1898—"The Recorder" Is Fifty Years Old Today—1948". Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954). Port Pirie, SA: National Library of Australia. 9 July 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 6 June 2013.