The Daily Guardian

Founded by Sir James John Joynton Smith (1858-1943). Joynton Smith with Robert Packer as manager and Claude McKay as editor, published Smith's Weekly from March 1919. Employing popular artists and writers, it found a large and appreciative readership with its jaunty style. Smith's Newspapers Ltd published the Daily Guardian from 1923 and the Sunday Guardian from 1929. In 1930-39 he was proprietor of the Referee and Arrow. He sold the two Guardians to Sir Hugh Denison in January 1930, but remained chairman of Smith's Newspapers until June 1939, when he leased the paper to National Press Ltd. Source Australian Dictionary fo Biography.