The ''Manning River Times'', also published as ''The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales'', is a

weekly newspaper Weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspap ...

published in

Taree Taree () is a city on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia. It and nearby Cundletown were settled in 1831 by William Wynter. Since then it has grown to a population of 26,381, and commands a significant agricultural district. Situ ...

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

, Australia.

History

The ''Manning River Times'' is currently published in

, by

Australian Community Media Australian Community Media (ACM) is a media company in Australia responsible for over 160 regional publications. Its mastheads include the '' Canberra Times'', '' Newcastle Herald'', '' The Examiner'', '' The Border Mail'', '' The Courier'' an ...

. The newspaper is titled after the

Manning River Manning River (Birpai language, Biripi: ''Boolumbahtee''), an open and Breakwater (structure), trained mature wind wave, wave dominated estuary#Lagoon-type or bar-built, barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast ...

which is a prominent river system near the town of Taree. The ''Manning River Times'' started publication in 1952 and is still published currently. Previously to 1952 the newspaper was published as ''The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales''. It was first published by William Burnham Boyce (1869-1968) in 1896. ''The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales'' was published twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday up until 1954. In 1954 under the title ''Manning River Times'' it expanded publication to 3 times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. However the ''Manning River Times'' was published twice a week on Wednesday and Friday. In February 2025,

reduced the printed edition to weekly.

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documen ...

of the

National 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 ...

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* {{Australian Community Media, state=collapsed Fairfax Media Newspapers established in 1952 Newspapers on Trove Newspapers published in New South Wales Weekly newspapers published in Australia 1952 establishments in Australia