Zeehan and Dundas Herald

The Zeehan and Dundas Herald (also seen as Zeehan Dundas Herald) was a newspaper for the West Coast Tasmania community, based in Zeehan and Dundas from 1890 to 1922.

It was published by William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden,[1] with the National Library of Australia catalogue stating that the first issues was dated Tuesday, 14 October 1890[2] while Blainey in The Peaks of Lyell has October 1891.

Some notable people worked on the staff during the life of the newspaper; David John O'Keefe was editor between 1894 and 1899.[3]

The technology acquired for the printing of the newspaper was, during publication, up to date and unique in being located outside of the main Hobart – Launceston city environments.[4]

It ceased operating with volume 33, number 193, on 31 May 1922.[5]

It was operating in the early years (1890s) at the same time as the Queenstown based Mount Lyell Standard,[6] which ceased in 1902.

It reported extensively on the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster and the subsequent inquiry following the disaster.

Microform copies of the newspaper were made in the late twentieth century.[7][8][9]

In the 2000s, family history enthusiasts have made copies of the newspapers birth, death and marriage entries for the full range of the newspapers existence.[10]

Subsequent west coast newspapers did not appear until later in the 20th century following the decline in the fortunes of Zeehan and Dundas and the exhaustion of the silver deposits in particular.[11]

  1. ^ "Zeehan and Dundas Herald". The North Coast Standard. Vol. I, no. 76. Tasmania, Australia. 4 February 1891. p. 2. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ The Zeehan and Dundas herald, William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, Herald Co-operative Party, 1890, ISSN 1839-7158
  3. ^ "O'Keefe, David John (1864–1943)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  4. ^ "THE ZEEHAN HERALD". Daily Telegraph. Vol. XXVII, no. 275. Tasmania. 20 November 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ Catalogue: Zeehan Dundas herald [microform]
  6. ^ "WESTERN NEWSPAPER". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas. 30 August 1933. p. 9. Retrieved 23 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ The Zeehan and Dundas herald, William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, Herald Co-operative Party, 1890, ISSN 2201-0424
  8. ^ Zeehan and Dundas Herald, [s.n.], 1900, retrieved 25 April 2016
  9. ^ The Zeehan and Dundas herald, William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, Herald Co-operative Party, 1890, ISSN 1839-7158
  10. ^ Tasmanian Family History Society. Burnie Branch (2001), The Zeehan and Dundas herald : births, deaths and marriages index, Tasmanian Family History Society, Burnie Branch, ISBN 978-1-876445-85-0
  11. ^ Howard, Patrick (2006), The Zeehan El Dorado : a history of Zeehan, Mount Heemskirk Books, ISBN 978-0-646-46766-5