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''The Richmond River Express Examiner'' was a weekly
''The Richmond River Express Examiner'' was a weekly newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
published in Casino, New South Wales
Casino is a town in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia, with a population of 10,914 people at the . It lies on the banks of the Richmond River and is situated at the junction of the Bruxner Highway and the Summerland Way.
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, Australia. It has been previously published as ''The Richmond River Express'', '' The Kyogle Examiner'', '' The Rosolen Press '', ''The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser'' and ''The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser''.
History
''The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser'' was Casino's first newspaper and was first published on 23 December 1870 by Robert Gordon Balmer. In 1904 the name was changed to ''The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser'' which was shortened to ''The Richmond River Express'' in 1929. The ''Express'' was published as a daily from 1929 to 1955 when a fire destroyed the printing plant. In 1978 the ''Express'' merged with '' The Kyogle Examiner'' and became ''The Richmond River Express Examiner''. The ''Examiner'' is currently published by ''The Northern Star
''The Northern Star'' is a daily newspaper serving Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. The newspaper is owned by News Corp Australia.
''The Northern Star'' is circulated to Lismore and surrounding communities, from Tweed Heads to the nort ...
''. The current editor is Susanna Freymark.
Digitisation
The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of theNational 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 ...
.
See also
* List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South WalesReferences
External links
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Richmond River Express Examiner, The Newspapers published in New South Wales Newspapers on Trove Weekly newspapers published in Australia