PHOTO: Gilgandra’s Harold Campbell owned the Coonamble Times from 1925 to 1955.
After the sale by the founding McWilliam family, the “royally-named” Harold Edward Oster Campbell became the owner, and guided the newspaper for the next thirty years.
H.E.O. Campbell was born in the Collie district and at a young age became a rouseabout in a shearing shed and member of the A.W.U. before joining the Gilgandra Weekly as a ‘printer’s devil’, a young apprentice performing menial tasks in a printery like mixing ink . . .
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