Australian Newspaper (Glen Innes Examiner)

History

The Glen Innes Examiner has served the New England tablelands of northern New South Wales since 1874. Published in the highland town of Glen Innes, the paper covered pastoral farming, sapphire mining, and community life for a district perched at over 1,000 metres elevation on the Great Dividing Range.

This collection covers 1947 to 1954, the peak years of Australia's postwar flying saucer wave. The New England region's high altitude, cold clear nights, and sparse settlement produced excellent sky-watching conditions, and the Glen Innes Examiner gave local sighting reports prominent placement.