The ''Wangaratta Chronicle'' is a newspaper published in

Wangaratta Wangaratta ( ) is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had an estimated urban population of 19,318 at June 2018. Wangaratta has recorded a population growth rate of almost 1% annually ...

Victoria, Australia Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in ...

History

On 10 September 1884 George Maxwell and

John Bowser Sir John Bowser (2 September 1856 – 10 June 1936), Australian politician, was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London, the son of an army officer, and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He grew up at Bacchus Mar ...

began the bi-weekly ''Wangaratta Chronicle''. It was in competition with the ''Wangaratta and Benalla Despatch'' founded on 21 March 1862 by John Rowan. William Thomas (Bill) Higgins, an apprentice for the Chronicle from age 12, bought the Despatch from Reginald Grantley Norton on 1 January 1921. He had left the Chronicle position aged in his early Twenties to open a print shop and prepare for a career in journalism. These two papers were merged on 27 March 1937 and the newly formed ''Wangaratta Chronicle Despatch'' began circulating bi-weekly. The ''Wangaratta Chronicle Despatch ''became a tri-weekly publication on 3 January 1950 and then became an afternoon publication on 2 July 1957. It became a Monday to Friday daily on 1 April 1958 and then on 27 September 1963 was no longer published on Wednesdays. It again became a tri-weekly publication from 29 December 1975. Bill Higgins died on 20 March 1949 and his son, William Francis Higgins became his heir. The company is still owned by the Higgins family, managed by Edward Higgins, a fourth generation family member. The ''Wangaratta Chronicle'' began to appear as a daily newspaper 1958 and is now published three times a week and offers digital access.

Digitisation

This newspaper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Project {{Cite web, url = http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program, title = AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER DIGITISATION PROGRAM, access-date = 12 February 2015, website = National Library of Australia, publisher = National Library of Australia of the

National Library 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 ...

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Newspapers published in Victoria (Australia)

History

Digitisation

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