The Western Grazier

The Western Grazier was a newspaper published from 1880 until 1951, covering the central Darling River region of New South Wales.

Reid was an Irish printer-journalist who had previously established several mining journals in Queensland, including The Miner in Charters Towers and Thornborough.

[9] Thomas Henry Bell took over publication of the paper in October 1898, and ran it for 14 years, during which time it became a weekly, published on Saturday, with the price doubled to 6d.

[12] On Patterson's death, ownership of the Grazier passed to Michael Hayes (publisher) and G. Lawrence (financial backing).

Lawrence regained ownership in 1941 and arranged with Ernest Wetherell of Broken Hill's Barrier Daily Truth to take over the printing and distribution of Western Grazier, with J.

With the war providing fresh headlines every day, and with most families personally involved, newspaper sales picked up dramatically.