The Referee (newspaper)

Referee 20 October 1886

The Referee was a newspaper published in Sydney, Australia from 1886 to 1939.[1]

History

The Referee was first published on 20 October 1886 by Edward Lewis. In 1933 it absorbed The Arrow (newspaper). It ceased on 31 August 1939.[2]

In 1887 Nat Gould started work as "Verax", horse-racing editor for the paper, which published in serial form his first novel, With the Tide, followed by his next five. He returned to England in 1895.[3]

Digitisation

This paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) project of the National Library of Australia.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Referee (Sydney, New South Wales)". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Arrow (Sydney, New South Wales)". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Nat Gould Passes". The Referee. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 30 July 1919. p. 1. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove Digitised newspapers and more. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

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