The ''Great Southern Leader'' was a newspaper published in
Pingelly and
Narrogin, Western Australia
Narrogin is a town in the Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, southeast of Perth, Western Australia, Perth on the Great Southern Highway between Pingelly, Western Australia, Pingelly and Wagin, Western Aust ...
from 1907 until 1934.
Editions
From its launch in 1907 until November 1909, two editions of the ''Great Southern Leader'' were published; the ''Pingelly-Cuballing'' edition and the ''Narrogin-Williams'' edition. In January 1908, these were renamed the ''Pingelly'' edition and the ''Narrogin-Williams-Cuballing'' edition.
The ''Pingelly-Cuballing'' edition incorporated ''
The Pingelly Leader''.
History
The first issue of the ''Great Southern Leader'' featured a quote from the French writer
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
:
Of the inclusion of this quote and the accompanying byline, the
Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of N ...
remarked "Modesty is a pronounced characteristic of the Great Southern editor".
Fire of 1926
The office and printing works of the newspaper at Narrogin were destroyed by fire on 1 February 1926, with the cost of the damage estimated to have been £5000 ().
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1907 establishments in Australia
1934 disestablishments in Australia
Newspapers established in 1907
Defunct newspapers of the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia
Publications disestablished in 1934