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The Tweed Daily

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The Tweed Daily was a daily English language newspaper published in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia from 1914 to 1949.[1] It was also published as the Tweed and Brunswick Advocate and Southern Queensland Record,[2] Tweed and Brunswick Advocate,[3] Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate,[4] Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle,[5] Tweed and South Coast Daily,[6] The Daily News,[7][8] Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News,[9] and the Tweed Daily News.[10][11]

The Tweed Daily, 1 January 1914

History

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The first edition of the Tweed and Brunswick Advocate and Southern Queensland Record was published by William Robert Baker on 31 October 1888.[2] On 13 May 1903, it was renamed the Tweed and Brunswick Advocate, published by John William Kilner.[3] On 26 July 1905, publisher P.W. Tarlinton renamed it the Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate, also known as the Tweed Times.[4] In July 1893 George Niklin started publishing the Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle, also known as the Tweed Herald.[12] On 1 January 1914, the first edition of The Tweed Daily was published; this incorporated the Tweed Herald and the Tweed Times.[12]

The Tweed Daily was replaced by the Tweed and South Coast Daily on 18 April 1949,[6] which was then continued by The Daily News, on 1 July 1957, with W.T.K Baird as publisher.[7] On 1 November 1986, the Tweed Newspaper Company commenced publication of the Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News, which split into the Tweed Daily News and the Gold Coast News in 1989.[9] The Tweed Daily News changed its name to the Daily News in 1993,[8] then to the Tweed Daily News in 2007.[13] In 2011 it changed back to the Daily News, also published as the Daily News: Tweed, Murwillumbah and Southern Gold Coast.[14] In 2014, the name changed to the Tweed Daily News and it became available online.[11]

The Tweed Herald office, circa 1900.

Digitisation

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This paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project hosted by the National Library of Australia.[15]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Tweed Daily". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Tweed and Brunswick advocate and Southern Queensland record". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Tweed and Brunswick advocate". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Tweed times and Brunswick advocate". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Tweed herald and Brunswick chronicle". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Tweed and south coast daily". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  7. ^ a b "The Daily news". Catalogue. New South Wales State Library. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Daily news (Tweed Heads, N.S.W. : 1993)". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  9. ^ a b "Tweed and Gold Coast daily news". Catalogue. New South Wales State Library. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  10. ^ "Tweed Daily News". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  11. ^ a b "Tweed daily news (2014)". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales.
  12. ^ a b Taylor, Erika (18 June 2015). "Celebrations on the Tweed!". Blogs. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  13. ^ "Tweed daily news (2007)". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  14. ^ "Daily news (Tweed Heads, N.S.W. : 2011)". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  15. ^ "Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
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