Wirra Wirra railway station is a railway station in the Shire of Etheridge, Queensland, Australia. It is on the heritage-listed Etheridge railway line.
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Wita WirraPeppermint Park / Wita Wirra (Park 18) , adelaideparklands.com.au 'peppermint grove/place' (wita 'peppermint tree' + wirra 'forest; bush')Sign: site 18, Adelaide City Council, archived 20 November 2010 via web.archive.orgCLMP for Wita Wirra (Park 18), Adelaide City Council, archived 19 November 2010 (2Mb, 49 pages) Contains Adelaide Himeji Garden and Osmond Gardens.
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Para Wirra Conservation Park (formerly Para Wirra Recreation Park and Para Wirra National Park) is a protected area located in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges in the northern end of the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia.Department of Environment & Natural Resources - Para Wirra Conservation Park Accessed 26 December 2015. The conservation park is part of a larger, block of contiguous native vegetation, the remainder of which is owned by PIRSA Forestry, SA Water and private landholders.
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Soil and Vegetation Survey of Para Wirra Recreation Park. Unpublished.
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Wikaparntu Wirra / Wikaparndo WirraJosie Agius Park / Wikaparntu Wirra (Park 22) , adelaideparklands.com.au 'netball park' (wika 'net' + parndo 'ball' + wirra 'forest; bush')Sign: site 22, Adelaide City Council, archived 20 November 2010 via web.archive.org 15.1haCLMP for Wikaparndo Wirra (Park 22), Adelaide City Council, archived 19 November 2010 (2Mb, 41 pages) Josie Agius was a Kaurna elder who supported girls' sport. Contains about 20 netball courts, a small amount of aged seating for spectators, and a building containing a small kiosk, netball administration rooms and a toilet block.
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Programmes in place at Para Wirra Conservation Park include:Dahl, E (unpublished data) Project Brief – Vegetation Recovery in Para Wirra Recreation Park. Stage III: Management of Kangaroo Grazing Pressure. Para Wirra Vegetation Recovery Project. weed control (namely African bridal creeper and boneseed), vermin control (preventing over grazing by feral goats and kangaroos), and revegetation programmes aimed at re-establishing indigenous plant species.
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Clark, G., 1967. Birds of Para Wirra. South Australian Ornithologist. 24.119-34.
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Para Wirra Conservation Park is crucial in conserving the native wildlife as much of it has been adversely affected by past agricultural and mining practices.Alexander, P., Evans, D., and Hill, B., 1978 Para Wirra Recreation Park-Vertebrate Fauna Survey. Unpublished.
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A siding at Reedy Springs at was renamed Wirra Wirra in December 1910. In 1916 it consisted of a gate, siding, telephone, and fork. By 1935 it also had a side loading bank and a shelter. A new stock yard was built in 1960.
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The first local government body established in the area was the District Council of Mudla Wirra, proclaimed in 1854. Mudla Wirra council encompassed those parts of the Hundred of Port Gawler and Hundred of Grace south of the River Light as well as all of the Hundred of Mudla Wirra. This included Port Gawler itself. In 1856 those parts in the hundreds of Grace and Port Gawler seceded to form the District Council of Port Gawler.
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There are a number of small concrete culverts and open drains, concrete retaining walls in the Delaney Gorge, and modern Queensland Rail communications installations at the stations and Wirra Wirra siding which are not significant. The sleepers of the main line within the railway reserve are not significant.
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This naming conflict continued until 1940, when the town was renamed Oodla Wirra, to match the railway station.
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Etheridge railway line is a heritage-listed railway line between Mount Surprise and Forsayth, both in the Shire of Etheridge, Queensland, Australia. It includes Mount Surprise railway station, Einasleigh railway station, Wirra Wirra railway station and Forsayth railway station. Etheridge railway line was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 16 February 2009.
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Walking is one of the best ways to discover the beauty of Para Wirra Conservation Park. All trails are graded and timed. Trails include spectacular, invigorating and enlightening walks around the lakes, the goldfields, valleys, open woodland and rivers. More information can be obtained from pamphlets on Para Wirra Conservation Park from DEWNR.
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Plan of the Hundred of Para Wirra, 1947 The hundred was proclaimed by Governor Frederick Robe in 1846 and named for an indigenous compound term meaning 'river forest' (compare: Karra wirra-parri). The first local government within the hundred were the District Council of Para Wirra, seated at Kersbrook, and District Council of Mount Crawford. The councils were established on the same day in 1854 to administer, respectively, the western and eastern halves of the hundred, with the Mount Crawford council area extending into the neighbouring Hundred of Barossa and slightly east outside the County of Adelaide boundaries. Para Wirra and Mount Crawford councils were both dissolved in 1935 and the hundred, from this time until 1997, was governed by the new District Council of Gumeracha.
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The town of Wasleys was established in an area known as the Mudla Wirra Forest. The name Mudla Wirra is aboriginal, Mudla meaning "implement" and Wirra meaning "forest". The town of Wasleys is now situated on an area first known as "Ridleyton" which was named after John Ridley, who laid out the village of Ridley in 1873. In 1869, the Peterborough railway line was built through the region and a railway station was erected on the land purchased by Josiah Wasley, one of the first settlers to the area.
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After graduation, Gott interned at Joseph Phelps Winery located in St. Helena, California, Gloria Ferrer in Sonoma, California, and Wirra Wirra in Australia. She completed these internships in three years. While at Joseph Phelps, she was mentored by Craig Williams and worked in the winery labs as an assistant enologist. She became assistant winemaker at Joseph Phelps in 1994.
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Oodla Wirra (formerly Penn) is a small town in the upper Mid North of South Australia. It is on the Barrier Highway approximately halfway from Adelaide to Broken Hill. When the railway was built in 1880, a siding was provided, named Oodla Wirra. Soon after, a town was surveyed near the siding, but it was named Penn.
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Oodla Wirra is a former railway town, as it was on the narrow-gauge railway between Port Pirie and Cockburn (where it connected to the Silverton Tramway to Broken Hill). When the Commonwealth Government replaced the narrow gauge line with a standard gauge line, the revised route passed south and east of the town. A railway guard was killed in a shunting accident in the Oodla Wirra railyards in 1909. In 1889, ironstone flux was mined from a failed silver mine a few miles away, and carted to Oodla Wirra to be transported by rail to the smelters at Port Pirie.
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Para Wirra Conservation Park is located within the localities of Barossa Goldfields, Humbug Scrub, Williamstown and Yattalunga about northeast of Adelaide CBD and southeast of Gawler.Para Wirra Recreation Park Demand Survey- Draft Report 8 August 1999 published by QED Pty Ltd (Quality Environmental Decisions) The other close townships to the park are One Tree Hill to the south and Williamstown to the east.
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The recreation park was abolished on 19 May 2016 and on the same day, its land holding was constituted as the Para Wirra Conservation Park.
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Amongst others, Baines has been commissionedPaintbox Fine Art, Andrew Baines to paint a book cover for Surf Life Saving in S.A., a wine label painting for Wirra Wirra Vineyard, a CD cover painting for ABC Classics, featuring the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Principal tuba player Peter Whish-Wilson,ABC Shop , Tuba Concertos, Peter Whish-Wilson, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the cover for Steven Ogden's book I Met God in Bermuda.
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The first local government body established in the area was the District Council of Mudla Wirra, proclaimed in 1854. Mudla Wirra council encompassed those parts of the Hundred of Port Gawler and Hundred of Grace south of the River Light as well as all of the Hundred of Mudla Wirra. In 1856 those parts in the hundreds of Grace and Port Gawler seceded to form the District Council of Port Gawler. North of the River Light it was not until 1873 that local government was formed by the establishment of the District Council of Dublin which encompassed both the Hundred of Dublin and that unincorporated north western part of the Hundred of Port Gawler.
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The Hundred of Para Wirra is a cadastral hundred of the County of Adelaide, South Australia, spanning a portion of the Adelaide Hills north of the Torrens Valley including Mount Crawford.
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In the Australian Aboriginal Brabralung dialect of the Gunai language, two variant names for the Crooked River are given as Dow- wirra, meaning "dry tree"; and Nirlung, meaning "plenty of water-hens".
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Affiliated groups with the Para Wirra Conservation Park, other than the conservation park's manager Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), include The Friends of Para Wirra (the major group). They meet on the first Wednesday and third Saturday of every month, starting at 9:00 am in the Conference Centre alongside the Ranger's office., Heart Foundation Walks, Barossa Goldfields Society, Tintookies Orienteers, ASSA, and various other groups who volunteer and hold functions within the recreation park less frequently.
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The section of the Etheridge Railway over the Newcastle range and through the Delaney Gorge has more earthworks than the rest of the railway. The railway track runs along the north face of the Delaney Gorge and along the bed of the Delaney River for a short distance. The significant elements within this section of the railway include any stone pitched bridge piers and abutments, stone pitched culverts, and stone cuttings. A large stone pitched culvert is located near Native Well, east of Wirra Wirra.
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The Friends of Para Wirra also have a small Conference Centre for hire, named the Ted and Molly Hughes Conference Centre after a husband and wife who are valuable life members of the Friends, having provided over 20 years’ service.
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Landscape near the parish.Wirra Wirra located at 31°01′25″S 143°07′19″ in Central Darling Shire is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales. .Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
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Wayville is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It is most notable for hosting of the Royal Adelaide Show at the Adelaide Showgrounds. The suburb is bordered to the north by Adelaide's South Parklands,The particular sections of the South Park Lands are: Kurrangga, Walyo Yerta, Minno Wirra, and Wikaparndo Wirra to the west by Adelaide- Goodwood railway line, to the east by King William Road, and to the south by Leader Street, Parsons Street and Simpson Parade. Keswick Creek, a tributary of the Brown Hill Creek and Patawalonga River, flows through the southern side of the suburb.
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Since 2005, he has created dozens of installations on Australian beaches, collaborating with Hills Hoist, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Leigh Warren Dance Company, Holstein Australia, the Western Australian State Gallery, Anglicare, Flinders Medical Centre Foundation and Wirra Wirra Vineyards. Volunteer subjects have included Malcolm Turnbull, Colin Barnett, Sir James & Lady Hardy, Sir Eric & Lady Neal, and Amanda Vanstone, among many others. Busselton Bovines (February 2011) involved placing five Holstein Friesian cattle in the sea at Busselton, Western Australia. It came about when Baines was approached by representatives of the national Dairy Innovators' ForumAustralian Dairy Conference , Cow art for charity at a gallery opening in Perth.
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The Surveyor General of South Australia visited the site which would become Roseworthy on 13 December 1837. In 1855 land in the Hundred of Mudla Wirra was purchased by William and Grace Gartrell. In 1863 when William died Grace sub-divided the land and named it Roseworthy.
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A branch line to the Einasleigh copper mine forked off to the north of the station, and today the remaining section off this line leads to cattle yards. By July 1909 a train was running from Almaden to Reedy Springs (Wirra Wirra), and by the end of August 1909 cuttings and embankments had been made to within of Charleston, with stone culverts and drains complete to from Charleston. More earthworks were required on the Newcastle Range and Delaney Gorge sections than elsewhere on the line. Ore trains were running to Chillagoe from a terminus just short of Charleston by January 1910, and the terminus at from Almaden was renamed "Forsayth" in December 1910.
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Land within the conservation park was first given protected area status on 21 June 1962 when it was proclaimed under the Crown Lands Act 1929 as the Para Wirra National Park, taking its name from the historic cadastral division which in lay, the Hundred of Para Wirra. The national park was officially opened on 24 September 1963 by the then Premier of South Australia, Sir Thomas Playford and was the second reserve in the state to be proclaimed as a national park. On 27 April 1972, the national park was reconstituted as a recreation park. This reconstitution reflected the park's role as a natural area catering for a wide range of recreational activities.
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Local government was established in the area from 1853 with the creation of the District Council of Barossa West (covering the western half of the Hundred of Barossa). Residents of the township of Gawler, at the confluence of the North and South Para rivers, were dissatisfied with the state of local governance. The township intersects four separate cadastral divisions, being at the corners of the hundreds of Mudla Wirra, Nuriootpa, Barossa and Munno Para. As such, the east half of the township was locally governed by the Barossa West council, the western half by the District Council of Mudla Wirra and the southern outskirts by the District Council of Munno Para West.
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Para Wirra Conservation Park supports a large population of western grey kangaroos and sometimes euros can be seen. Other native animals present but not frequently observed in the park include the small nocturnal yellow-footed antechinus, the ant and termite eating short- beaked echidna, the common ringtail possum and the brushtail possum.
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Para Wirra Conservation Park is not only important as an educational resource, but also for its conservation and recreation value. The boundary of the conservation park is contiguous with, and forms part of a block of native vegetation. As only twenty six percent (26%) of the Mount Lofty Ranges remains uncleared, a block of native vegetation of this size is important in terms of its representativeness of vegetation types, for the maintenance of diversity of animal and plant species, maintenance of water quality, and as a valuable recreational resource for the community. Para Wirra Conservation Park also provides a range of recreation opportunities consistent with its conservation significance and its importance and proximity to the expanding population of the northern metropolitan area.
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The Hundred of Coglin () was proclaimed on 31 October 1878. It covers an area of and was named after P. B. Coglin, a member of the South Australian Parliament at the time. Its extent is largely within the boundaries of the localities of Dawson with a portion on its southern boundary being in Oodla Wirra.
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On 2 November 2015, Environment Minister Ian Hunter announced that to better recognise and protect the recreation park's natural and heritage values, it would be upgraded to Conservation Park status.News and media releases - Para Wirra upgraded to a conservation park Department of Environment, Water and natural Resources. 2 November 2015. Accessed 26 December 2015.
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The intersection with the access road is about from Coober Pedy in the west and about from William Creek in the east. The lake is the subject of a song named "Carra Barra Wirra Canna" written by Morva Cogan and which was recorded in the 1960s by the Australian singer and musician, Rolf Harris.
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The early settlers of South Australia referred to the various indigenous tribes of the Adelaide Plains and Fleurieu Peninsula as "Rapid Bay tribe", "the Encounter Bay tribe", "the Adelaide tribe", the Kouwandilla tribe, "the Wirra tribe", "the Noarlunga tribe" (the Ngurlonnga band) and the Willunga tribe (the Willangga band). The extended family groups of the Adelaide Plains, who spoke dialects of a common language, were named according to locality, such as Kawanda Meyunna (North men), Wirra Meyunna (Forest People), Pietta Meyunna (Murrray River people), Wito Meyunna (Adelaide clan's former name), Tandanya (South Adelaide people), etc. – but they had no common name for themselves. The name Kaurna was not recorded until 1879, used by Alfred William Howitt in 1904, but not widely used until popularised by Norman B. Tindale in the 1920s.
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The place was destroyed by fire in May 1857. Williams, with Governor Gawler and J. B. Hack had a "Special Survey" of Little Para farm land taken out in the Para Wirra area, and by him named "The Hermitage", his portion being . He fenced the property, and built a homestead where he lived, and as early as 1840 was growing wheat.
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The conservation park takes its name from what are believed to be two local Aboriginal words; Para meaning "river" and Wirra meaning "forest". There are several sites of Aboriginal significance within the conservation park, but the area was thought to have been occupied by the Peramangk tribe prior European settlement.Tindale, N.B. 1974 Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Australian National University Press, Canberra.
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KarrawirraRed Gum Park / Karrawirra (Park 12) , adelaideparklands.com.au 'river red gum forest' ('karra' = red gum tree, 'wirra' = forest)Sign: site 12, Adelaide City Council, archived 20 November 2010 via web.archive.orgCLMP for Karrawirra (Park 12), Adelaide City Council, archived 19 November 2010 (7Mb, 131 pages) Contains many buildings, parks, memorials and statues - see Park 12 for a more complete list. Park 12 is bisected by the river.
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In recent years the river has been dually known by the indigenous Kaurna people's name of Karra wirra-parri (meaning river of the Red Gum forest), referring to the dense eucalyptus forest that lined its banks prior to clearing by early settlers.Kaurna Place Naming City of Adelaide. Retrieved 5 August 2017. This name, alternatively Karra-weera, only referred to the lake section of the river, between Adelaide and North Adelaide.
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The Dawson Hotel was built in 1883. A public school opened in 1885 after several years of agitation from local residents. Local government came to the area in 1888 with the District Council of Coglin; it met alternately at Dawson and Lancelot until 1899, when the council seat shifted to Penn (now Oodla Wirra). At its peak, Dawson also had multiple stores, churches, an institute, Mechanics Institute of Dawson, South Australia.
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The council was proclaimed on 1 March 1977 by the amalgamation of the District Council of Freeling and the District Council of Mudla Wirra. From 1 July 1977, it consisted of eight councillors, one representing each ward (Freeling, Gawler River, Greenock, Light, Para, Pinkerton, Roseworthy and Wasleys). As of 1977, its chambers were located in Freeling. On 13 March 1985, it lost areas around Gawler West and Willaston to the Town of Gawler.
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Para Wirra Conservation Park lies entirely within an inlier of crystalline basement rock which extends southwards to Torrens Gorge. It is part of a more extensively exposed Precambrian rock mass, the oldest in the Mount Lofty Ranges. In the extreme west of the park there are undifferentiated metamorphic, mostly very micaceous rocks (schists), and gneisses. A zone of distinctive layered or banded quartz- feldspar rich rocks (gneisses) extends though the central portion of the park.
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Emus at Parra Wirra, near the Park Office There are over 120 species of birds recorded in the conservation park. These include the emu which was introduced into the park in 1967. In the aquatic areas of the park birdlife includes the grey teal, Australasian grebe and cormorants. The South Para river and nearby woodland areas support birds such as white-faced herons, black ducks, white-browed babblers, black-chinned honeyeaters and eastern spinebills.
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There are 38 recorded reptiles and amphibians within Para Wirra Conservation Park. These include the long-necked tortoise, marbled gecko, tree dtella, bearded dragon, the shingle back, common grass skink and eastern blue tongue lizard. Only 5 species are amphibians: the brown tree frog, bull frog, spotted grass frog, Bibron's toadlet and brown froglet. The yellow faced whip snake, brown snake and the red-bellied black snake have also been sighted in the park.
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Barossa Goldfields is a locality in South Australia. It is on the southwestern side of the Barossa Council, bounded on the southwest by the South Para River. The locality is now essentially rural, but is named for the gold mining and prospecting in the second half of the nineteenth century in the area, on the creeks descending to the South Para River. Part of that area is now preserved as part of the Para Wirra Recreation Park.
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The name Wirrabara derives from a corruption of two words from the Kaurna language of the "Adelaide tribe", wirra (gum trees) and birra (running water); in the Nukunu language of the local Nukunu people, wira and parl means gum trees with honey and water. A timber milling industry was established in Wirrabara during the early 1850s. The town was surveyed in 1874. In 1877 the first government forest nursery in Australia was planted in the nearby Wirrabara forest.
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Dawson is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the District Council of Peterborough. It covers the entirety of the cadastral Hundred of Coglin, with the exception of the small town of Oodla Wirra. Boundaries for the locality were created on 31 August 2000 and it was given the “long established name” of Dawson which is derived from the Government Town of Dawson whose site is located within the boundaries of the locality.
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It was divided into four wards: Coglin, Gumbowie, East and North. Meetings were held alternately at Dawson and Lancelot until 1899, and thereafter at Penn (now Oodla Wirra). In 1923, it was responsible for a chiefly grazing and farming district of 595,200 acres. It was reported in that year that of the five officially surveyed townships in the municipality, three now had no residents, with the surviving towns being Penn (30 residents) and Dawson (20 residents).
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In 1997, Gumeracha was amalgamated with East Torrens, Onkaparinga, and Stirling councils to form the much larger Adelaide Hills Council. In 1962 the Para Wirra National Park was proclaimed in the northwest of the hundred. It was reconstituted as a recreation park in 1972, but was upgraded to Conservation Park status in 2015 and the recreation park status was abolished. In 1966, the Warren Conservation Park was created in the middle of the hundred on the northern slopes of Mount Gould Range.
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Greenwith has two primary schools, Greenwith Primary School and Our Lady of Hope School, on a combined campus. Greenwith is hilly with numerous park areas, most with children's playgrounds and several with lakes, creeks, or scenic walking trails, including the Para Wirra Conservation Park and Cobbler Creek Recreation Park. Many of the lakes are suitable for fishing, and it is not openly discouraged by the local authorities. The lakes in particular have carp and guppies, and the rare yabbie or two.
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When they recorded their second single, "Bingo Bango" in June 1981, Hatfield had been replaced by Geoff O'Reagan on bass guitar. This song was written by John and Anthony, was produced by Owens and was recorded at Wirra-Willa Studios. By August of that year Jeff Fatt had joined on keyboards and Phil Robinson became their bass guitarist. According to Anthony, Fatt had been a member of "a seminal Sydney rockabilly band called the Roadmasters", and had joined "to fight boredom".
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Broken Hill Railway Precinct NSW Environment & Heritage Parts of the new line are on a different alignment than the old narrow gauge route. For example, the new line bypasses the town of Oodla Wirra, and followed a new alignment rather than the route of the Silverton Tramway. In 1982, the Adelaide to Port Augusta line was converted to standard gauge. As part of this the junction with the Port Pirie to Broken Hill line was moved 24 kilometres east to Crystal Brook.
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The zone is enclosed by the Mount Lofty Ranges zone on all but its east side which borders the Lower Murray zone. The term ‘Barossa’ was registered as an AGI under the Wine Australia Corporation Act 1980 on 27 December 1996. The zone boundary is based on the lands administrative divisions of South Australia, and consists of the whole of the hundreds of Belvidere, Nuriootpa, Moorooroo, Jellicoe, Barossa, Jutland, plus a small part of the hundred of Para Wirra where it extends between Williamstown and Springton.
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In 1851 Carman built the Wheatsheaf Inn on a subdivision of section 5519 of the Hundred of Para Wirra. By 1858, some settlers had arrived and Carman gave some of his land to build a town called Maidstone after Maidstone, Kent. In 1917 the town was officially renamed to Kersbrook as this was the name used by local residents and referred to the original 'Kersbrook' farm of John Bowden immediately south west of the town. It became a notable agricultural area, especially for fruit.
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Clearview sits atop a gentle rise, and from some parts, depending and weather, line of sight right down to Port Adelaide is possible from ground view. This situation gave rise to the suburb name, via its founding company, Clearview Ltd. Most of the original vegetation has been lost due to urbanisation with the exception of areas in the neighbouring suburb of Enfield. Folland Park Reserve and the adjacent Enfield Memorial Park's "Wirra Wonga" (meaning bush grave in the indigenous Kaurna language) contain remnants of mallee box vegetation.
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Several pine plantation forests exist, most significantly around Mount Crawford and Cudlee Creek in the north and Kuitpo Forest and Second Valley in the south. Several protected areas exist near Adelaide where the hills face the city in order to preserve highly sought-after residential land: Black Hill Conservation Park, Cleland Conservation Park and Belair National Park are the largest. The other significant parks in the southern ranges are Deep Creek Conservation Park, on the rugged southern shores of the Fleurieu Peninsula, and Para Wirra Conservation Park at the southern edge of the Barossa Valley. There are many wineries in the ranges.
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The name "Neutral Bay" originates from the time of the early colonial period of Australia, where different bays of Sydney harbour were zoned for different incoming vessels. This bay was where all foreign vessels would dock, hence the name neutral.The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia , page 185 The Aboriginal name for the area was 'Wirra-birra'. In 1789, soon after the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney, Governor Arthur Phillip declared this bay a neutral harbour where foreign ships could anchor and take on water and supplies.
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Following the Council's Reconciliation Vision Statement in 1997, it set about applying dual naming of many city sites and features, deciding on a Kaurna name in collaboration with appropriate authorities and community organisations. In 2003 the final group of names were endorsed, and the name Mullawirraburka was applied to Rymill Park. The name Mullawirraburka was the name of a Kaurna man, known to settlers as "King Jack" or "Onkaparinga Jack". His name derived from Kaurna words mulla − dry and wirra – forest, which together made the name of Mullawirra, the "territory" in the Aldinga-Willunga area which Mullawirraburka inherited from his father ; and burka – old man.
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The District Council of Port Gawler was a local government area in South Australia from 1856 to 1935. It was proclaimed on 11 September 1856 after being severed from the District Council of Mudla Wirra. Its jurisdiction consisted of most of the Hundred of Port Gawler, excluding that land in the north west corner north of the River Light, and a south-east portion of the Hundred of Grace which fell south of the River Light. It was thus bounded on the north by River Light, on the south by River Gawler, the west by Gulf St Vincent and on the east by the eastern borders of the cadastral hundreds.
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The District Council of Peterborough is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The principal town and council seat is Peterborough; it also includes the localities of Cavenagh, Dawson, Hardy, Minvalara, Nackara, Oodla Wirra, Paratoo, Parnaroo, Sunnybrae, Ucolta and Yongala. It was formed on 21 March 1935, when the District Council of Coglin and the District Council of Yongala merged with part of the Corporate Town of Peterborough to create the new council. The remainder of the Corporate Town of Peterborough continued on as an independent municipality surrounded by the District Council until the two were amalgamated in 1997.
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The Adelaide Plains (Kaurna name Tarndanya) is a plain in South Australia lying between the coast (Gulf St Vincent) on the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges on the east. The southernmost tip of the plain is in the southern seaside suburbs of Adelaide around Brighton at the foot of the O'Halloran Hill escarpment with the south Hummocks Range and Wakefield River roughly approximating the northern boundary. Traditionally entirely occupied by the Kaurna (indigenous) people, the Adelaide Plains are crossed by a number of rivers and creeks, but several dry up during summer. The rivers (from south to north) include: the Onkaparinga/Ngangki, Sturt/Warri Torrens/Karra Wirra, Little Para, Gawler, Light/Yarralinka and Wakefield/Undalya.
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The first settlers established farms in the Kersbrook area in the early 1831s due to its relatively gentle slopes. John Bowden, manager of the South Australian Company's dairy farm at Hackney, bought the section 6146, Hundred of Para Wirra, and named it Kersbrook after the Cornish farm where he was born. By 1844, Bowden was recorded as having "800 sheep, 62 cattle, one horse, 13 pigs, of wheat, eight acres of barley, plots of oats, maize and potatoes, and a fruit garden". The settlement itself was created by William Carman, a blacksmith working at a copper mine near Williamstown, who took advantage of the area's location on the busy road to the Barossa Valley.
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The government town of Dawson was surveyed in February 1881; it was often referred to as Coglin in its early years. It was founded as part of an attempt to establish wheat farming north of Goyder's Line, but this proved unsuccessful in the long term, and the Crystal Brook-Broken Hill railway line bypassed Dawson, instead running further south through Oodla Wirra and Peterborough. Coglin Post Office opened in 1881, was renamed Dawson Post Office in April 1882, and closed on 14 August 1971. The 1880s saw the construction of Primitive Methodist, Anglican and Catholic churches; the former Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church (1886) survives and is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.
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Prior started playing guitar aged 8, drums at 11, vibraphone at 17 and piano at 24. During his teens, he performed in the bands Mandrake, then Legend with brother Rob Prior (guitar/vocals) and neighbor Paul Williams (bass guitar) at The Kirribilli Hotel, the Mosman Spastic Centre and Sydney Boys High School. With the addition of keyboards player Chris Short and the name change to Conic Section, they composed original jazz-rock fusion, performed at the Limerick Castle Hotel and won the Festival Of Pop band competition at Flemington Sydney in 1974 and a 2SM song competition in 1975. The band TAPP, comprising John and Rob Prior, Peter Astley (bass guitar), Geoff Taylor (keyboards) and Peter Noakes (vocals) recorded at Wirra Willa Studios, Glenfield Park.
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Ward was Secretary of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of S.A. from 1866 to 1868, and the driving force behind that society's "Grand General Show" 7–9 November 1867 held to coincide with Prince Alfred's visit to the State. He was a strong advocate for the Jubilee Exhibition of 1887. Ward owned a farm at Parawurlie, Yorke Peninsula, which was characterised by Edwin Derrington's Port Adelaide News as both a speculation with Mr. Fuller and a mansion, a den of luxury and licentiousness. In 1890 Ward bought a property at Grampus Range, 21 km south of Yunta, 49 km east of Oodla Wirra and 54 km south-west of Mannahill and established a homestead there, with an elderly retainer as caretaker.
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UniSA Magill Campus In 1850 he was one of the many who supported South Australian Register editor John Stephens who was being attacked for his outspoken criticism of some influential people. In 1851 he was appointed to the District Road Commission for the Hundred of Para Wirra, the precursor of the District Council of Tungkillo, of which he was one of the original councillors and for some time chairman. Murray supported compulsory implementation the Real Property Act (Torrens Title), as a way of depriving usurious lawyers of a source of unearned revenue. In April 1862, he was elected to the House of Assembly for the District of Gumeracha at the by- election brought about by the retirement of the Hon.
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The County of Kimberley extends from the east side of the Flinders Ranges for a distance of about from its western boundary and for about from its northern boundary. It is bounded by the following counties - Herbert to the north, Burra to the south, Dalhousie to the west and north- west, Victoria to the west and the south-west, and Young to the south-east. The county's sole town is Terowie which is located in its south-western corner. The county is served by one principal roads, the Barrier Highway which passes through the county in a north-south direction from the town of Whyte Yarcowie in the south entering via the Hundred of Terowie and exiting via the Hundred of Parnaroo on its way to the town centre in Oodla Wirra in the north.
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Josef Lippert (b. 17 January 1888; d. 8 February 1963) was a pedlar known throughout the Vorderhunsrück (“Fore-Hunsrück”), but he was from Beltheim. He always wore several jackets, buttoning or unbuttoning them according to season. He would refer to the weather with such remarks as “Hout es et wirra ane Jacke källa woar !” (“It’s got another jacket colder today!”). He was known to everyone as der Beldemer Lippert (Beldemer being a local form of Beltheimer). The best known story about him stems from a “business trip” that he made to Berlin in the time of the Third Reich. It is said that, while hawking his stock of herring, he called out on the street “Hering, so fett wie de Göring !” (“Herring, as fat as Göring!”), for which he was carted off to prison for eight days. After he was released, he went straight back to his herring hawking, calling out “Hering, so fett wie die vorig Woch !” (“Herring, as fat as last week!”). This story is likely apocryphal, as the same or similar stories are told about fish sellers in Ahlen and Koblenz, among others.
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