AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List
Gippsland Newspapers
A number of institutions in Gippsland hold copies of newspapers relating to Gippsland.
This list details many of these holdings, based on an article in Gippsland Heritage
Journal no.12 (1992)
pp 54-55.
Details of any additional holdings in Gippsland would be appreciated. Please forward details to kapana@netspace.net.au
This list does not include holdings not held in Gippsland. So, for example, the two newspapers that had a brief life at Heyfield, and the one that had an even briefer life at Lindenow, are not listed here, even though they are held at the State Library.
The majority of the newspapers listed are also held in the LaTrobe Collection, State Library of Victoria. A full list of all known published newspapers for Gippsland has been published in Newspapers in Australian Libraries: A Union List. Part 2. Australian newspapers published in Canberra by the National Library of Australia. An article on Gippsland newspapers by Liz Morrison was published in GHJ no. 6 (1988).
An online index including issues of several Gippsland newspapers can be found at http://www.oldnewscopy.com. If you locate an entry within that index, you may obtain the article yourself (local library, etc), or a commercial copy service is available at that site.
Using this List
The list that follows is firstly by town, and then by newspaper. Once the appropriate paper has been noted it is followed by a date range, the form in which that date range is held (microfilm or bound copies) and the institution which holds that date range. For example, the first listing is:
Bairnsdale Advertiser 14.2.1882-24.12.1940 m: 8
This means the Bairnsdale Advertiser is held on microfilm from 14.2.1882 to 24.12.1940 at the East Gippsland Historical Society.
Please note that the date range given here only refers to the run of newspapers held by
the collecting organisations. It often reflects when newspapers commenced publication, but
may not refer to when they ceased.
The Gippsland holdings are at:
1. Centre for Gippsland Studies, Monash University Gippsland Campus,
Churchill, 3842.
Ph: (03) 5122 6356. Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Wednesday.
2. Wellington Library Service: Sale
3. Wellington Library Service: Maffra. Open 10am to 12.30pm, 1.30pm to 6pm Mon, Wed and Thurs, 10am to 6pm Fri, 10am to 12pm Saturday. Closed Tuesday.
4. Wellington Library Service: Yarram
5. La Trobe Library Service: Traralgon Branch, Breed Street, Traralgon. Ph (03) 5174 2534. Postal address PO. Box 815, Morwell 3840. Open: 3pm to 6pm Sun, 10am to 6pm Tues and Thurs, 1pm to 6pm Wed and Fri, 9am to 12md Sat.
6. La Trobe Library Service: Morwell Branch, 10 Hazelwood Rd, Morwell. Ph (03) 5134 1047. Postal address P.O. Box 815, Morwell 3840. Open 1pm to 6pm Mon, Wed & Fri, 10am to 6pm Tues & Thurs, 9am to 12md Sat.
7. South Gippsland Library Service: Leongatha. 9 Smith St, Leongatha 3953. Opens 9.30am Tues to Sat, closes 5pm Tues & Thurs, 6pm Wed, 8pm Fri, 12md Sat.
8. East Gippsland Historical Society, Macarthur St, Bairnsdale. Open 10.30am to 4pm Wed and Sat. A museum admission and research fee applies.
9. Sale Historical Society, P.O. Box 724, Sale 3850. Sale Museum is open 1.30pm to 4.30pm Sundays, or at other times by appointment on (03) 5144 4549 when a $10 opening fee applies.
10. Maffra Historical Society: P.O. Box 86, Maffra 3860. Maffra Sugarbeet Museum, River Street, Maffra, is open 2pm to 4pm Sundays, or at other times by appointment. (Note: these holdings are currently unavailable)
11. Warragul Historical Society Museum. Open 2pm to 4pm Sunday.
12. Port Albert Maritime Museum. Open 2pm to 5pm Sundays, January school holidays and public holidays. An appointment is necessary to use the microfilm (03) 5184 1312, and a $5 research fee applies.
Baw Baw Library Service, Warragul, does not hold any newspapers on microfilm at this stage.
A number of community newsletters such as The Local Rag from the Bendoc/Bonang area, the Mallacoota Mouth and the Buchan Bulletin are held in the local collection at the Bairnsdale Library, but are not included in this list.
Newspapers
Bairnsdale
Bairnsdale Advertiser 14.2.1882-24.12.1940 m:8; May 1983-present loose:8
http://www.oldnewscopy.com
includes an index to the Bairnsdale Advertiser for some issues in 1882 and 1883.
East Gippsland Review March 1987-July 1987 b:l, loose:8
Boolarra
Boolarra Link Vol.1, no.1 April(?) 1982-present (incomplete) b:6
Bruthen
Tambo and Orbost Times 8.1.1887-30.12.1908 m:8
http://www.oldnewscopy.com
includes an index to the Tambo and Orbost Times for some issues in 1889.
Bruthen and Tambo Times 3.6.1903-23.12.1920 m:l; 6.1.1909-23.12.1920 m:8
Bullumwaal
The East Gippsland Miner 26.2.1898-9.9.1899 m:8
Churchill
Churchill News 19.8.1967-present b:6
Dandenong
South Bourke and Mornington Journal c.1877-? (one roll only) m:ll
Drouin
Gippsland Independent and Express 3.1.1879-5.1.1921 m:5
West Gippsland Express 1.9.1898-25.9.1919 m:l
Foster
Foster and Toora Mirror 28.3.1890-23.12.1920 m:l
Glengarry
Glengarry, Toongabbie and Cowwarr Journal and Central Gippsland Reporter 3 Oct. 1893 - 31 Dec. 1914 m:5
Korumburra
Great Southern Advocate 13.9.1889-23.12.1920 m:l
Latrobe Valley
Latrobe Valley Express 14.7.1965-present b:6; 18.1.1967-20.12.1974 b:5
Latrobe Valley Advocate & Advertiser 3.1.1968-30.6.1969 b:6
Leongatha
Great Southern Star 21.7.1981-present b:7
South Gippsland Sentinel Times 8.9.1981-present b:7
Maffra
Maffra Spectator 1882-1920 m:10; 1966-1980 b:3
(possibly also held at 2, confirmation
necessary)
Mirboo
Mirboo Herald 7.7.1887~27.7.1894 m:l
Moe
Narracan Shire Advocate 6.4.1889-29.12.1920 m:l, 12.1.1921-21.12.1951 m:6
Moe Register 14 July 1888 - 30 March 1889 m:6
Morwell
Morwell & Yinnar Gazette 6.10.1885-5.1.1921 m:6 (impf.)
Morwell Advertiser 30.10.1886-28.6.1965 m:6; 4.10.1955-28.2.56 m:l; 30.6.1965-27.4.1972 b:6
Omeo
Omeo Telegraph 13.10.1884-15.5.1896 m:l
http://www.oldnewscopy.com
includes an index to the Omeo Telegraph for some issues in 1884, 1886 and 1888.
Omeo Standard 4.11.1893-29.12.1911 m:l
Orbost
Snowy River Mail 9.8.1890-23.12.1920 m:l
Port Albert
Gippsland Guardian 5.10.1855-13.7.1866 m:l, rn:5, m:8, m:12; 1856-1861 m:9; 16.9.1859-13.7.1866 m:2
Index to Gippsland Guardian 1855-1857
Gippsland Standard 16.2.1882-28.12.1900 m:2
Rosedale
Rosedale Courier 3.8.1889-23.12.1920 m:l, m:2, m:5
Sale
Gippsland Independent 1861 (several) b:l
Gippsland Times 16.8.1861-31.12.1900 m:l, m:2; 16.8.1861-24.9.1884 m:8; 16.8.1861-25.7.1888 and 3.1.1901-30.12.1920 m:5; c.1867-c.1890 m:12, 1879, 1880 b:9; 1968-1980 b:2 (see also Gippsland Times and Maffra Spectator below)
Gippsland Chronicle and Crooked River and Stringers Creek Advertiser 21.7.1866-10.10.1866 m:l, b:10
Gippsland Mercury 2.1.1871-28.12.1900 m:2; 1874-1882 m:9; 1879, 1883, 1888 b:9
Gippsland Times and Maffra Spectator 1981-present b:2
Trafalgar
Trafalgar and Yarragon Times 3.5.1902-27.12.1918 m:l
Traralgon
Traralgon Record 14.12.1883-28.12.1900 m:l; 14.12.1883-22.12.1932 m:5
Gippsland Farmers Journal 27.1.1887-27.12.1923 (later became Traralgon Journal) m:5
Traralgon Journal 2.12.1965-present b:5
Wallhalla
Walhalla Chronicle 10.1.1882-30.71915 m:1
http://www.oldnewscopy.com
includes an index to the Walhalla Chronicle for some issues in 1871, 1872 and
1881.
Warragul
Warragul Guardian 16.10.1879-28.12.1900 m:l, m:ll
Warragul Press Aug 1987-Aug 1988 b:l
Woods Point
Woodspoint Times and Mountaineer 15.8.1864-2.4.1868 m:l
Yallourn
Live Wire 10.9.1925-15.8.1967 b&m:l
Yarram
South Gippsland Chronicle 6.1.1893-24.12.1900 m:2
Yarram Standard News c. 1878-1900 m: 12, 1962 to present (except 1967 is missing) b:4
TASMANIA
Hobart
Hobart Town Courier 5.1.1844-30.12.1846 m:12
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