Balonne Beacon

The Balonne Beacon is a newspaper published in St George, Shire of Balonne, Queensland, Australia from 1878 onwards. It was originally called the St. George Standard and Balonne Advertiser.

Balonne Beacon, Saturday 2 January 1909, page 1

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, the current proprietors, in mid-1997.[1]

On 25 June 2020, the Balonne Beacon published its last printed edition (with headline “End of our era - 115 years of serving the Balonne shire” on the front page) and became an online publication.[2]

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.

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See also

References
  1. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2008). Purposely parochial: 100 years of the Country Press in Queensland. Queensland Country Press Association. ISBN 9780646491943.
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/25/the-presses-stop-final-newspapers-printed-in-dozens-of-australian-towns
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