The Pioneer (South Australia)


The Pioneer was a weekly newspaper published in Yorketown, South Australia from March 1898 until June 1969, when it absorbed the Maitland Watch and was renamed to Yorke Peninsula News Pictorial. For thirty years an opposition newspaper, the Clarion, existed in the town too.

History

The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Pioneer was first published on 21 January 1898, and sold at a discounted price due to its late appearance. It was originally owned and established by Ben L. Wilkinson, and later helped by his brother Richard, in Yorketown. In Issue 10, on 25 March that year, the newspaper adopted a simpler title, The Pioneer.
In 1969, the newspaper absorbed the Maitland Watch, and became the short-lived Yorke Peninsula News Pictorial, which was then incorporated into the Yorke Peninsula Country Times from June 1970.

Digitisation

With the exception of a few missing issues, the newspaper digitisation program of the National Library of Australia has digitised photographic copies of The Pioneer from its inception to 24 December 1954. The State Library of South Australia carried microform copies of the newspaper from its inception to December 1960.