The Cooktown Independent was a newspaper published in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia.
Historyedit
The Cooktown Independent was first published in Cooktown on 6 June 1884 by James Fowler for Cooktown Independent Newspaper Company.[1] In 1937, it became the Cooktown Independent and Northern Sun.[2][3][4] From November 1939 to 1947, it was published in Mossman under the title Northern Boomerang.[5][6]
In November 1947, Brian Keighley Gerardy (also known as Brian Keighley-Gerardy) purchased the printing plant to relocate to Murgon to establish the Murgon Advertiser.[7]
^"Untitled". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 8, 246. Queensland, Australia. 14 June 1884. p. 5. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^The Cooktown independent, Cooktown Independent, 1800, retrieved 18 September 2017
^The Cooktown independent, James Fowler for Cooktown Independent Newspaper Company, 1884, retrieved 18 September 2017
^First issue of the Cooktown independent (Friday, June 6, 1884), s.n, retrieved 18 September 2017
^Northern boomerang and The Cooktown independent, [Northern Boomerang?], 1940, retrieved 18 September 2017
^"MOSSMAN AND DISTRICT NOTES". Townsville Daily Bulletin. Vol. LXI, no. 280. Queensland, Australia. 25 November 1939. p. 12. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Newspaper For Murgon". Maryborough Chronicle. No. 23, 626. Queensland, Australia. 1 November 1947. p. 9. Retrieved 18 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
December 18, 2023
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