The ''Collie Mail'' was established at

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in 1908. The paper was published weekly, initially Saturdays and from 1931 forward Thursdays, to share the news and information of the new coal mining town of Collie. The distribution area of the ''Collie Mail'' covered Collie, Bunbury, Darkan, Donnybrook and Duranillan. The ''Collie Mail'' was in it later years owned by

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. Copies could be obtained every Thursday for $ 1.50 "at Reubens" or by subscription. The last entry on their

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page dates back to 30 October 2020. The website is redirected to the '' Bunbury Mail'' site. Nowadays Collie is served by the locally run '' Collie River Valley Bulletin'', which publishes a print edition weekly on Thursdays and maintains a presence on the internet.

Variant titles

The ''Collie Mail'' has had a number of different titles over the years it has been in print: From November 1916 forward, after the apparent demise of the Collie Miner (1900-1916), the Mail called itself on its masthead "''the Only Newspaper Published on the Collie Coalfields''". Already in the years before it boasted there of the "''Guaranteed Largest Circulation''".

Availability

Issues of the Mail from the years between 1916 and 1954 have been digitised as part of the

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, a project of the

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in cooperation with the

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. They can be viewed online
Collie Mail (1916-1954)
published weekly Two more newspapers from Collie have been digitised:
Collie Miner (1900-1916)
published twice weekly
The Collie Times (1935)
published weekly Hard copy and microfilm copies of the ''Collie Mail'' are also available at the State Library of Western Australia.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Collie Mail, The Newspapers established in 1908 1908 establishments in Australia Collie, Western Australia Newspapers on Trove South West Newspapers

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