Geraldton Guardian

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The Geraldton Guardian is a newspaper that was established in Geraldton, Western Australia, on 1 October 1906 to serve the Victoria and Murchison Districts. It was launched on principles of liberal democracy, state rights, nationalism and British preference.{{cite news | title = Introductory | date = 2 October 1906 | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page6483356 | work = Geraldton Guardian | pages = 4 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}

History

=Founding=

The Geraldton Guardian was established by the proprietors, Constantine and Gardner, at the "Guardian Buildings", Marine Terrace, Geraldton, Western Australia.{{cite web|title=The Geraldton guardian|url=https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1734795|website=State Library of Western Australia catalogue|access-date=20 October 2015}} Edward Constantine, the senior partner of Constantine and Gardner was born in Cornwall, England but emigrated to South Australia with his parents at the age of three.{{cite book|last1=Battye|first1=James Sykes|title=Cyclopedia of Western Australia|pages=986|date=1985|publisher=Hesperian Press|location=State Library of Western Australia|isbn=0859050726|edition=Facsimile|url=http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1063017~S7#.VhsqQPmqqko|access-date=12 October 2015}}

Initially the Geraldton Guardian was published biweekly on Tuesday and Friday. It consisted of eight demy-folio pages printed on a demy Wharfedale machine. From 15 October 1907, publication changed to tri-weekly on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.{{cite news|title=Ourselves and our paper|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66225932|access-date=13 August 2016|work=The Geraldton Guardian|date=8 October 1907|page=2}} It was now bring printed on a super double royal Wharfedale powered by a 5-horsepower engine.

=Merged 1929=

On 1 January 1929 the Guardian amalgamated with the other Geraldton newspaper, the Geraldton Express (established in 1878), and was published as The Geraldton Guardian and Express, an evening daily.{{cite news | title = The Geraldton Newspaper Merger | date = 8 December 1928 | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67030989 | work = Geraldton Guardian | pages = 1 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}{{cite news | title = Ourselves | date = 3 January 1929 | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67206540 | work = Geraldton Guardian and Express | pages = 1 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}

=Relaunched 1948=

On 1 January 1948 it changed its name back to The Geraldton Guardian.{{cite news | title = The Geraldton Guardian with which is incorporated the "Geraldton Express" | date = 3 January 1948 | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page6604364 | work = Geraldton Guardian | pages = 1 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}

Availability

Issues of the Geraldton Guardian (1906 - 1928) and (1948 - 1950) plus The Geraldton Guardian and Express (1929 - 1947) have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program,{{cite web|title=Australian Newspaper Digitisaton Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|website=National Library of Australia|access-date=2 November 2015|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|url-status=dead}} a project of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of Western Australia.

Hard copy and microfilm copies of the Geraldton Guardian, The Geraldton Guardian and Express{{cite web|title=Geraldton guardian and express|url=https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1772429|website=State Library of Western Australia catalogue|access-date=20 October 2015}} and The Geraldton Guardian{{cite web|title='The Geraldton guardian|url=https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1681065|website=State Library of Western Australia catalogue|access-date=20 October 2015}} are also available at the State Library of Western Australia.