About Us: The Chronicle, Toowoomba is the product of the incorporation of two of Queensland's oldest newspapers.
The Darling Downs Gazette, founded at Drayton by Sydney Arthur Lyon, began publication in a wooden shanty on June 10, 1858. It began as a weekly, moved to the burgeoning town of Toowoomba until merging with The Chronicle in 1922. At that time the Gazette was a daily newspaper.
The Chronicle, founded by Darius Hunt, began as a four penny weekly on July 4, 1861 in a coach builder's shop in James St. It became a bi-weekly (Wednesday and Saturday) on its fifth birthday in 1866 but reverted to a weekly on October 8, 1870. On October 5, 1875 The Chronicle became a tri-weekly before reverting to a bi-weekly in December that year. On February 4, 1876, William Groom became sole proprietor, beginning nearly half a century of family control of a newspaper he transformed into a powerful and persuasive political weapon.
In 1922 the Dunn family acquired the Gazette and the two newspapers were amalgamated as the Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette. The combined newspaper was published first on October 2, 1922. On October 20, 1969 The Chronicle format was changed from broadsheet to tabloid. An opposition daily, the Darling Downs Star, began publication on July 11, 1955.
The Chronicle and Downs Star interests merged on October 1, 1970 under a new company Toowoomba Newspapers Pty Ltd. The Downs Star continued as a daily until July 14, 1971, when it became a weekly. The newspaper was relaunched as Toowoomba's Mail in September 2003.
In 1988, Australian Provincial Newspapers Ltd (APN) acquired a 50% share in Toowoomba Newspapers. Today, The Chronicle publishes six days a week (Monday-Saturday).
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