20-801: The Great Southern Leader was a newspaper published in Pingelly and Narrogin, Western Australia from 1907 until 1934. From its launch in 1907 until November 1909, two editions of the Great Southern Leader were published; the Pingelly-Cuballing edition and the Narrogin-Williams edition. In January 1908, these were renamed the Pingelly edition and the Narrogin-Williams-Cuballing edition. The Pingelly-Cuballing edition incorporated The Pingelly Leader . The first issue of
40-515: A Community Resource Centre is located within the town. A school bus ferries high school students to Narrogin . Each year two market days with a wide range of items are held in May and October. The Shire of Pingelly has built a new recreation and community centre as well as new aged appropriate accommodation. The town is a stop on the Transwa bus service from Perth to Albany. The Pingelly Health Service
60-564: A clockwise direction. The last event, won by Harley Hammond in his Marquette Special was the final motor sport event held in Western Australia before racing stopped due to World War 2. In the 2016 Census, there were 809 people in Pingelly. Of these 50.4% were male and 49.6% were female. The median age of people in Pingelly was 52 years. Children aged 0–14 years made up 16.8% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 29.7% of
80-432: A dozen in 1995. Narrogin's previous role as a major railway junction has acted as an attractor for agricultural service industries as well as government departments and agencies. The town has accumulated significant public infrastructure – mainly in the health and education areas. This infrastructure serves as the base for the modern regional centre that Narrogin has become today. The Old Court House Museum
100-462: A museum, exhibiting displays of regional memorabilia. The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling . Narrogin has a Mediterranean climate characterised by hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. The highest temperature recorded in Narrogin was 44.7 °C (112.5 °F) on 3 February 2007; the lowest temperature recorded
120-551: Is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling . At the 2016 census , Pingelly had a population of 809. The town was originally a railway siding along the Great Southern Railway line, built by the Western Australian Land Company, and opened in 1889. Later the same year the company designed the town and made land available. In 1896 the state government purchased the railway and the land and gazetted
140-471: Is a major attraction for tourists. The building was designed by the architect George Temple-Poole and constructed in 1894. The building served as a Government school until 1905, when it became the local courthouse. A local branch of the Agricultural Bank was housed in the building between 1924 and 1945, but in 1970 it was converted again into the local courthouse. Since 1976, the building has been used as
160-722: Is part of the Upper Great Southern Health Services, and includes a 24/7 medical centre facility as well as a general practitioner. Silver Chain offers home help, gardening, respite and other aged care services. Narrogin Regional Hospital remains the primary centre servicing the Upper Great Southern area. Narrogin, Western Australia Narrogin is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 192 kilometres (119 mi) southeast of Perth on
180-555: The Great Southern Highway between Pingelly and Wagin . In the age of steam engines , Narrogin was one of the largest railway operation hubs in the southern part of Western Australia. Narrogin is an Aboriginal name, having been first recorded as "Narroging" for a pool in this area in 1869. The meaning of the name is uncertain, various sources recording it as "bat camp", "plenty of everything" or derived from "gnargagin" which means "place of water". The first Europeans into
200-581: The Great Southern Leader featured a quote from the French writer Victor Hugo : This is more than necessary, it is urgent, therefore we publish it. Of the inclusion of this quote and the accompanying byline, the Sunday Times remarked "Modesty is a pronounced characteristic of the Great Southern editor". The office and printing works of the newspaper at Narrogin were destroyed by fire on 1 February 1926, with
220-419: The Narrogin area were Alfred Hillman and his party, who surveyed the track between Perth and Albany in 1835. They passed 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the present site of Narrogin. In time they were followed by the occasional shepherd who drove his sheep into the area seeking good pastures. The area was settled in the 1860s and 1870s when pastoralists moved and settled in isolated outposts. The population
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#1732897982961240-524: The construction of the local agricultural hall were advertised in late 1893, the contract was awarded to Thorne, Bower and Stewart in early 1894. The hall was opened in September of the same year with a tamar hunt and a ball to mark the occasion. Between 1939 and 1941 three motor racing meetings were held annually in the town, including the Great Southern Flying 50 , using a circuit which went in
260-551: The cost of the damage estimated to have been £5000 (equivalent to $ 449,813 in 2022). Pingelly Pingelly is a town and shire located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia , 158 kilometres (98 mi) from Perth via the Brookton Highway and Great Southern Highway . The town is also located on the Great Southern railway line . The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town
280-570: The population. 73.5% of people were born in Australia. The shire includes over 1,100 residents living both in town and on rural properties, and is a key agricultural centre, with wheat, barley, sheep and cattle farming being the main activities. Pingelly contains a primary school, Bendigo Bank , shopping facilities ( IGA supermarket , chemist, post office, specialty shops, arts and craft shop, hospital auxiliary op shop ), accommodation (hotels, B&B , caravan park), golf course and council offices, and
300-529: The town was 60, 35 males and 25 females. The local agricultural hall was opened the same year by Frederick Piesse . The arrival of the Great Southern Railway in July 1889 initiated the first hint of a town. The railway company was in search of good reliable watering points along the route from Perth to Albany. The company that had won the railway contract, the WA Land Company, duly purchased Narrogin pool, and it
320-500: The townsite in 1898. Its name is Aboriginal in origin and is the name of the Pingeculling Rocks found to the north of the town. The name was first recorded in 1873, and the original settlers referred to the area as Pingegulley for years before the town was gazetted. In early 1898 the population of the town was 89, 52 males and 37 females, however this isn't accurate, as this does not include Aboriginal people. Tenders for
340-578: Was around this pool that the town developed. Narrogin was connected to six separate railway destinations – York , Wagin, Collie , Wickepin , Kulin and Boddington . Narrogin remained a major rail centre until the late 1970s when competition from road transport saw a reduction in the railway's workforce. By 1987, Narrogin was very much in decline, largely as the result of altered working of engines through from Avon Yard . The station ceased to be served by scheduled passenger trains from 1978. The number of employees dropped from about 280 people to fewer than
360-585: Was held on a shorter 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) circuit starting in 1948, replacing Pingelly as host of the Great Southern Flying 50 . Racing in Narrogin ceased after the 1955 Le Mans disaster . The town also acts as a hub for sporting competitions in the surrounding regions. Facilities were improved in recent years with the development of the Narrogin Leisure Complex, which houses a 25-metre (82 ft) indoor heated pool with leisure pool, gymnasium, café, squash courts, basketball stadiums as well as
380-462: Was so scattered that there was no incentive to establish a town. Narrogin was officially declared a town in June 1897 and it was gazetted as a municipality on 13 April 1906. The early years of settlement were hard, with farmers relying on sandalwood cutting and the bark from mallee trees (it was used as a tanning agent) to compensate for poor returns from wheat and sheep. By early 1898 the population of
400-494: Was −3.1 °C (26.4 °F) on 6 September 1956. Narrogin's highest daily rainfall occurred on 29 January 1990 when 150.0 millimetres (5.91 in) of rain was recorded. In 1951 the Australian Grand Prix was held on a 7.1-kilometre (4.4 mi) circuit through the town's streets. The event attracted a crowd estimated at 35,000, and was won by Warwick Pratley driving an Australian developed car. An annual race meeting
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