title: Hocking and Company
text: # Hocking and Company
  
  Hocking and Company Pty. Ltd. was a publishing company based in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. It was founded in 1896 by Sidney Edwin Hocking.
  
  It published the daily newspaper The Kalgoorlie Miner. The company maintained a lengthy relationship with the goldfields community as publisher and local patron of community activities.
  
  The Hocking family kept the company operational until selling it to The West Australian in 1970.
  
  ## Newspapers
  
  * Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper, 1895–present
  * Western Argus newspaper, 1894–1938
  