[Myer Store News]

The Myer Store News. A Newspaper for the Myer Staff [an unbroken run of 37 issues from March 1939 to April 1941]

Melbourne, The Myer Emporium Limited, 1939 to 1941.

Tabloid format (375 × 250 mm), either 2 or 4 pages per issue, with numerous illustrations throughout (many from photographs); there is at least one unnumbered supplementary leaf.

Contemporary flush-cut plain quarter cloth and thick card covers a little stained; a small section (approximately 75 × 85 mm) excised from the first leaf of the first number; overall, in very good condition.

Volume 10, Number 135, 22 March to Number 149 (misnumbered CXLXI), 27 December 1939, and New Series, Number 1 (31 January) to Number 23, 23 April 1941. No issues were published in January 1940. On the front cover are the ownership details of one P.T. Wharington, a Myer employee (see New Series Number 16, page 3). The lavish in-house newspaper contains much employee-related war news.