The Zeehan and Dundas Herald (also seen as Zeehan Dundas Herald) was a newspaper for the West CoastTasmania community, based in Zeehan and Dundas from 1890 to 1922.
It was published by William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden,[1] with the National Library of Australia catalogue stating that the first issues was dated Tuesday, 14 October 1890[2] while Blainey in The Peaks of Lyell has October 1891.
Some notable people worked on the staff during the life of the newspaper; David John O'Keefe was editor between 1894 and 1899.[3]
The technology acquired for the printing of the newspaper was, during publication, up to date and unique in being located outside of the main Hobart – Launceston city environments.[4]
It ceased operating with volume 33, number 193, on 31 May 1922.[5]
Microform copies of the newspaper were made in the late twentieth century.[7][8][9]
In the 2000s, family history enthusiasts have made copies of the newspapers birth, death and marriage entries for the full range of the newspapers existence.[10]
Subsequent west coast newspapers did not appear until later in the 20th century following the decline in the fortunes of Zeehan and Dundas and the exhaustion of the silver deposits in particular.[11]
^"THE ZEEHAN HERALD". Daily Telegraph. Vol. XXVII, no. 275. Tasmania. 20 November 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 25 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^The Zeehan and Dundas herald, William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, Herald Co-operative Party, 1890, ISSN1839-7158
^Tasmanian Family History Society. Burnie Branch (2001), The Zeehan and Dundas herald : births, deaths and marriages index, Tasmanian Family History Society, Burnie Branch, ISBN978-1-876445-85-0
^Howard, Patrick (2006), The Zeehan El Dorado : a history of Zeehan, Mount Heemskirk Books, ISBN978-0-646-46766-5
Miller, E. Morris (1953) A Historical Summary of Tasmanian Newspapers, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Papers and Proceedings, vol.2, no.2, March 1953
