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1. Bound copy of 1st year editions of "The South Western News Busselton" Monday October 26th 1903 - Friday November 4th 1904
2. Copy of "The South Western News Busselton" Friday May 10th 1929
3. Copy of "The South Western News Busselton" Friday April 8th 1932. First Busselton Centenary and 1832 - 1932 "Back to Busselton" Issue. Special Staff Edition. Limited to Ten Copies.
4. Copy of "The West Australian Centenary Issue" Thursday January 5th 1933
5. The Unwelcome Guest, Esme Stuart. Busselton State School, 1st Prize (equal), Awarded to Zoe Mann, Standard II, For Needlework, 17-12-1914, L.H.Nicholls Head Teacher
6. Matilda's Mirror, By Robona F Hardy. Esther Mann. Creswick Wesleyan Sunday School. Nov. 1888
7. The New Testament. The Queens Jubilee 1887. Victoria. British Foreign Bible Society. New Testament. William Joseph Mann, State School Gift, Creswick June 2nd 1889
8. Ivanhoe By Sir Walter Scott. Howard Hastwell, Narrogin SS
9. The Heiress of Wilmington, E Everett Green. Presented to Jean Frusher For Attendance Lessons & Conduct. James Collins F.O. A Wilkie Sgt. Major, Pingelly Corps, 15/12/24

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cwa-org-124-2022.257

Item type

Books

Newspapers

Themes

Social History

Contextual Information

William Joseph Mann (1875-1951) who established the South Western News in 1903. WJ Mann was the editor and proprietor of the newspaper, which was published weekly, until he sold his interest to his nephew William Howard Hastwell in 1935. The South Western News continued to be published by various people until it finally ceased publication in 1963.
William Mann was the MLC for the South-West Province from 1926 until his death in 1951.
Zoe Hassell nee Mann daughter of William Joseph and Barbara Mann.
Esther Mann sister of William Joseph Mann.
Jean Frusher married William Howard Hastwell.

The Hastwell family, who allied to the Mann family when WJ Mann’s sister Esther married Walter Hastwell, owned and operated the Mann W J & Co retail stationery store in Prince Street until the early 2000s.

Keywords

Busselton Historical Society

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