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The Farmer & Settler

newspaper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ17004106 ↗
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The Farmer & Settler was an English-language broadsheet newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 1906 and 1957. It was primarily published weekly.

The banner of the first issues of the Farmer and Settler was subtitled "The Official Newspaper of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales", then from Volume II no. 1 of 8 February 1907 was far less ornate, with the motto "The Official Organ of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of NSW", which in July 1910 became "The Voice of the Rural World", from 22 March 1918 "and Livestock Breeders' Journal"; from 30 January 1932 "Conducted by Uncle Wiseman"; then from 29 July 1937 "32nd Year of Publication" (updated each February).

History

The first issue was published on 7 February 1906 as the official newspaper of the Farmers and Settlers Association of New South Wales".

The first editor of the newspaper was the (then) secretary of the F&S Association, T. I. Campbell, with Charles White an associate editor. White was still so employed in December 1909, for most of that time under "senior sub-editor" Harry J. Stephens.

In July 1907 a new company Farmers' and Settlers' Publishers Limited was floated, with assets of £20,000 in £1 shares, to take over assets of the newspaper.

The Farmers' and Settlers' Association could no longer rely on the newspaper to act as its voice, and in January 1911 the Association launched a new paper, The Land in competition.

In August 1911 the paper began publishing twice weekly, and this continued until shortly after the beginning of World War 1.

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“The Farmer & Settler” enters the record as newspaper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Farmer, Settler and newspaper can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1957, 1907, 1910—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Farmer, Settler and newspaper.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q17004106. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1957, 1907 and 1910.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Farmer & Settler” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.