Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Friday 12 October 1973, page 7


New daily

for WA "

Western Australia has a new morning daily newspaper, the Independent Sun. launched yesterday by the Independent group, owned by mining magnates, Mr Lang Hancock and Mr Peter Wright, publishers of the Sunday Independent.

The first two issues have contained 40 pages of local, interstate and world news.

The Sun is the first competition for the existing morning daily, the West Australian, in more than 100 years.