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''The Border Watch'' is an Australian newspaper based in Mount Gambier, South Australia,〔http://www.ruralpresssales.com.au/detail.asp?region=South+Australia&paper_id=137&state=VIC〕 owned by the Scott Group of Companies.〔http://www.borderwatch.com.au/about/history〕 Published Tuesday through Friday, the paper serves the City of Mount Gambier, the South Australian Limestone Coast and parts of Western Victoria. The oldest and largest regional newspaper in South Australia, it won the "Best Newspaper" category in the South Australian Country Press Awards in 2005, for the first time in 50 years. The Border Watch also owns and prints the weekly newspaper ''The Pennant'', which services Penola and district, and the ''South Eastern Times'' at Millicent. ==History== It was first published on 26 April 1861 by proprietor and editor Andrew Frederick Laurie (1843–1920), aided by his brother Park Laurie (1846–1928) and their mother, the widow of the Rev. Alexander Laurie, first Presbyterian minister of nearby Portland, Victoria. It started as a 4-page, single broadsheet weekly in Gambierton, as Mount Gambier township was then known. John Watson (ca.1842 – 13 December 1925) joined in 1863 as editor, and he and A. F. Laurie as publisher managed the company for the next 50 years.〔 This article may be of interest to historians.〕 A. F. Laurie was president of the Mount Gambier Racing Club from its inception and Watson was Mount Gambier's first mayor. A. F. Laurie and J. Watson founded ''The Narracoorte Herald'' in 1875, run initially by Archibald Caldwell and John Baxter Mather, and taken over in 1880 by Mather and George Ash. Kieran Iles left the ''Border Watch'' to become editor of the ''Sunraysia Daily'' in January 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Border Watch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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