The ''Mildura Cultivator'' (1888–1920) was a weekly newspaper, the second newspaper to be published in
Mildura, Victoria
Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 in 2021. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point and Merbein are included, the area had ...
.
History
It was first published on Thursday 19 May 1888 as the official organ of
Chaffey Brothers
George Chaffey (28 January 1848 – 1 March 1932) was a Canadian–born engineer who with his brother William developed large parts of Southern California, including what became the community of Etiwanda and cities of Ontario, and Upland. They ...
, founders of the irrigation settlement. The paper later went to bi-weekly, published on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The ''Mildura Cultivator'', ''Merbein Irrigationist'' and ''Mildura Telegraph'' were amalgamated in 1920 to be replaced by the ''
Sunraysia Daily
The ''Sunraysia Daily'' is a local newspaper in the north-western Sunraysia region of Victoria, Australia, it is published on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. From its first publication in 1920 until 14 September 2007, it was published ...
'', whose managing editor was
Harry J. Stephens
Harry James Stephens (c. 1866 – 25 August 1947) was an Australian journalist with a long career, mostly in Victoria and New South Wales agricultural districts. He was with '' The Farmer & Settler'' of Sydney for fourteen years and while editing ...
, well known as "Uncle Wiseman" of the ''
Farmer and Settler''. The last edition was published on 29 September 1920.
Personalities
(Samuel) Gifford Hall (1864–), who wrote as "Steele Blayde", was a noted horticulture and features writer, whose first article for the ''Cultivator'' was published on 24 August 1912.
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''World War I Victorian newspapers''from the State Library of Victoria
Defunct newspapers published in Victoria (Australia)
Publications established in 1888
Mildura
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