The Walcha News will turn 110 this year and to mark the anniversary we will feature an historic article from a previous vintage issue each week.
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The first issue of the Walcha News was on the streets on October 8, 1904. The paper was started by 31 year-old David Fowler who settled in Walcha at the age of 15 with his parents. Within a year or so he was apprenticed to the Walcha Witness (which was bought by the Walcha News in 1928).
The Uralla Times announced the arrival of the Walcha News with the comment:
“We have received a copy of the new paper printed and published at the old-fashioned town of Walcha. The new venture is well written and appears to be indefatigable in its endeavours to voice the interests of its surroundings.
“The business people seem prepared to give it more than a modicum of support and we trust that the Walcha News succeeds in shaking a little animation into the pious old town.”
Unfortunately not all papers have survived until today.
Two fires destroyed all stored copies of the Walcha News from 1907 to 1932, with no papers saved.
