Its first issue was produced by the "chromograph" method (a gelatin pad transfer system); its second by a form of mimeograph,[1] with advertisements printed using a Cyclostyle machine by its first editor, A. P. Corrie.
[citation needed] Arthur Pitman Corrie (c. April 1871 – 9 September 1932) served an apprenticeship as a mechanic and worked at the Illawarra Mercury[5] before founding the Renmark Pioneer in 1892.
He moved to Queensland, where he joined the Brisbane Daily Mail then in October 1914 enlisted with the AIF, and with the 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance saw action in the Middle East.
[8] He was lauded by an editor of The Bunyip, another South Australian regional newspaper, as being well informed on foreign affairs, and uniquely cool headed during the Great War.
[9] A regular book review,[a] which also served as an editorial on cultural and political matters, ran from 26 April 1912 (conducted by "NORASTYL", another Taylor alias, abandoned after a few issues) to 16 August 1929.
[10] Issues commencing 8 July 1921 deal with Professor Coleman Phillipson's defence of the swingeing peace terms of the Treaty of Versailles,[11] and are particularly prophetic.