Out on the Barcoo Where Newspapers Are Few and Reporters and Printers Are Scanty

Blackall - population 1,730, or 47 per cent down on the 1961 Census - has been served by a newspaper for all except three years since 1879. And so on March 29 this year when publication of the Blackall Leader ceased, three months short of its 18th birthday, it was a black day for the town. Perhaps none watched the paper's demise more sadly than Sally Cripps, as will be shown