The Auburn & District News was an English-language local community tabloid newspaper published by Levick & Son, at their office at 50 Auburn Road, Auburn in Sydney, Australia, and printed at their works at 31A Pitt Street, Sydney.

The first issue was published on Thursday 15 August 1929 and circulated for free in the towns of Auburn, Lidcombe, Berala, Regents Park, Silverwater and surrounding districts, with a guaranteed circulation of 6,000.[1]

Content included reports of Auburn Municipal Council and local community organisations, and information on radio broadcasting and motoring issues, with copy by the NRMA featured prominently.[2]

It is not known when the Auburn & District News ceased publication.

Availability

Only one issue of the Auburn & District News (Vol. 1, No. 16, dated Thursday, 28 November 1929), is available at the State Library of New South Wales.[3]

Gosford Micrographics Pty Ltd filmed the only surviving issue of the Auburn & District News, along with orphan issues of The Express, a newspaper that also covered the Auburn, Lidcombe and Homebush districts, onto a single reel of microfilm in April 2000. This microfilm can be viewed at the State Library of New South Wales, and the library services of Cumberland Council and the City of Parramatta Council.[4][5][6]

Issue number 16 of the Auburn & District News is available online via the National Library of Australia Trove digitised newspaper website.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Auburn & District News". Auburn and District News. Vol. 1, no. 16. New South Wales. 28 November 1929. p. 1. Retrieved 24 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Auburn and District News". Auburn and District News. Vol. 1, no. 16. New South Wales. 28 November 1929. p. 3. Retrieved 24 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ State Library of New South Wales Catalogue entry
  4. ↑ State Library of New South Wales Catalogue entry
  5. ↑ Cumberland Council Library Service Catalogue entry
  6. ↑ City of Parramatta Council Library Service Catalogue entry
  7. ↑ "Auburn and District News". NSW. Retrieved 29 November 2017 – via Trove, National Library of Australia.
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