NEWSPAPER’S DEMISE.
• ’ LAUNOENSTON DAILY’ TELEGRAPH.” HOBART, March 20. After continuous publication since 1881, when it first appeared as a biweekly, the “Launceston Daily Telegraph” was printed for the last time oil Wednesday morning. For 40 of the 47 years the paper was issued daily, and for" nearly the whole time in the morning. It * was Tasmania’s first penny iliii 1 v newspaper. Its liberal und-pro-gressive policy and journalistic enterprise secured for it suppoiteis in all parts of the State. Its demise has aroused a widespread feeling of regret and loss of good public service. The “Telegraph”' is the fifth daily newspaper in four Tasmanian centres that has found the conditions adversely affecting production and distribution during the last ten or twelve years too .severe to permit survival under them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 April 1928, Page 7
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129NEWSPAPER’S DEMISE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 April 1928, Page 7
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