''The Pioneer'' was a weekly newspaper published in

Yorketown, South Australia Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Yorke Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the municipal seat of Maitland. At the 2016 census, the loca ...

from March 1898 until June 1969, when it absorbed the ''Maitland Watch'' and was renamed to ''Yorke Peninsula News Pictorial''. For thirty years an opposition newspaper, the ''Clarion'' (7 June 1902 - 21 May 1931), existed in the town too.

History

''The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Pioneer'' was first published on 21 January 1898, and sold at a discounted price due to its late appearance. It was originally owned and established by Ben L. Wilkinson, and later helped by his brother Richard, in Yorketown. In Issue 10, on 25 March that year, the newspaper adopted a simpler title, ''The Pioneer.'' In 1969, the newspaper absorbed the ''Maitland Watch'' (22 December 1911 - 26 June 1969), and became the short-lived ''Yorke Peninsula News Pictorial'' (3 July 1969 - 28 May 1970), which was then incorporated into the ''

Yorke Peninsula Country Times ''Yorke Peninsula Country Times'' is a weekly South Australian newspaper, which was first published on 4 September 1968. It was formed by the merging of ''Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times'' and ''South Australian Farmer,'' representing numerous fo ...

'' from June 1970.

Digitisation

With the exception of a few missing issues, the newspaper digitisation program of the

National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...

has digitised photographic copies of ''The Pioneer'' from its inception to 24 December 1954. The

State Library of South Australia The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public research l ...

carried microform copies of the newspaper (shelved as ''S. Y. P. Pioneer'') from its inception to December 1960.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pioneer, The Defunct newspapers published in South Australia Publications established in 1903 1903 establishments in Australia