The Town of Newcastle and the District of Toodyay: a brief sketch, from the Newcastle Herald and Toodyay district chronicle, 23 Dec. 1905, introduced by Beth Frayne.
Extract from Duidgeeana, the newsletter of the Toodyay Historical Society (Inc.), Issue No. 12, November December 2009, pp. 6-8.
Photo caption: Staff of the Newcastle Herald newspaper outside their office on New Road, Newcastle (from Newcastle Herald, 23 Dec. 1905, p.6, courtesy Trove: newspaperpage27856154)
Beth Frayne discovered in 2009 a wonderful article about Newcastle published in the 23 December 1905 issue (p.5-6) of the Newcastle herald and Toodyay district chronicle. As the article does not include a by-line, we may assume it was written by the first Editor of the newspaper Charles Dawson, formerly on the staff of the Northam advertiser. Some extracts and photographs from the article have been reproduced in the attached article.
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