West Australian Newspapers
The first Western Mail was published between 19 December 1885 and 23 October 1896 as a joint venture by Charles Harper and John Winthrop Hackett, the co-owners of The West Australian, the State's major daily paper. It was printed by James Gibbney at the paper's office in St Georges Terrace, Perth.
Considerable numbers of regional and local newspapers in Western Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries included the word 'Mail' in their names.
The Western Mail Annual editions (1897–1955) carried significant collections of Western Australia art, photography and writing
West Australian Newspapers management experimented with a variety of formats in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including the Weekend Mail for five years (see publication details below).
The paper was renamed to The Countryman in 1955, which together with the Rural Press-owned Farm Weekly are today the two major weekly rural papers in the state.
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