Tuesday, August 16, 2022

EARLY CHINESE PUBLICATIONS

 In 1923  there  were   five   Chinese  newspapers  in   Australia . Four were  produced   in New South Wales - the Chinese  Australian  Herald ,Chinese Republic News ,Chinese World News and  The  Chinese Times; in Victoria , there  was  the  Chinese  Times .

All  of the  four  Sydney published  papers appear to have been weeklies ,all sold  for  fivepence a  copy, annual subscription  twenty shillings  .

Established in 1922, the  Chinese  Times was  published  by  the Chinese Masonic  Society ,   K.M.T. Buildings , Ultimo Road, Haymarket . In  the case of the  Chinese World News , its pages  set across seven columns,it was published by G.Low Long, 18 Mary's Street..  Publisher of  the    Saturday  Chinese Australia  Herald ,  was  Sun  Johnson , of Castlereagh Street . The  Chinese  Republic News  was published  by  P. Lee, Campbell Street .

 The  Melbourne Chinese Times, which  ran to eight pages, was  published  by  Samuel L. Sue, 116 Lonsdale  Street .