The ''Balonne Beacon'' was a newspaper published in
St George
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,
Shire of Balonne
The Shire of Balonne is a local government area in South West Queensland, Australia, over from the state capital, Brisbane. It covers an area of , and has existed as a local government entity since 1879. It is headquartered in its main town, S ...
,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, Australia from 1878 to 2020. It was originally called the ''St. George Standard and Balonne Advertiser''.
History
The first issue of the ''St. George Standard and Balonne Advertiser'' appeared on 10 July 1878. A fire destroyed the office and printery on 2 September 1905 and it was replaced by the ''Balonne Beacon'', whose first issue was published on 4 October 1905. The ''Balonne Beacon'' also absorbed the ''Maranoa News'' on 7 July 1955.
William Norman Dendle and Eva Dendle ran the paper from 1936 to 1971; and it was purchased in October 1971 by Max and Rada Pringle, who ran it for twenty-two years until the end of 1993. It was then sold to Rob and Pam Elkington and finally purchased by
APN News & Media
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, the current proprietors, in mid-1997.
Along with a number of other regional Australian newspapers owned by
NewsCorp
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, the newspaper ceased publication in June 2020. On 25 June 2020, the Balonne Beacon published its last printed edition with theheadline “End of our era - 115 years of serving the Balonne shire” on the front page.
Digitisation
The paper has been
digitised as part of the
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
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of the National Library of Australia.
See also
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List of newspapers in Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia.
National
In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965.
Daily newspape ...
References
External links
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* {{trove newspaper, 1065, The St. George Standard and Balonne Advertiser, Qld. : 1878 - 1879; 1902 - 1904
Balonne Beacon(APN website)
Newspapers published in Queensland
Publications established in 1878
1878 establishments in Australia
St George, Queensland
Newspapers on Trove