Wagin - Argus Newspaper Letter presses

“It is intended to make the Southern Argus and Wagin-Arthur Express a real, live, progressive, pushful paper—a paper with a voice and a literary soul—that may be read with avidity and enjoyed as profitable and instructive, and not a mere automaton” The Southern Argus and Wagin-Arthur Express, Wednesday 5 April 1905. The Southern Argus and Wagin-Arthur Express was first published in 1905 and cost three pence. The newspaper changed its name to the Wagin Argus in 1924. The Wagin Historical Village has several of the newspaper’s printing presses, including the hand-driven Wharfedale flat-bed printing press. Still in working order, the printing press is sometimes used for limited print runs by local community groups. The Wagin Argus printed its final edition in 2015.