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Menzies, Western Australia
Menzies is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, east-northeast of the state capital, Perth, and north-northwest of the city of Kalgoorlie. At the 2016 census, Menzies had a population of 108. Aboriginal people have lived in this area since time immemorial. History Gold was discovered in the area in 1894, and Leslie Robert Menzies, a Canadian-born prospector, and John McDonald were the first to take up a lease here in October 1894, naming it the "Lady Shenton". It was a rich gold find, and the Mining Warden for the area recommended a townsite be declared in 1895, named in Menzies' honour. The townsite was gazetted in August 1895. Land around the town was sold in 1895 and by 1896 it had become a municipality. A railway line was constructed from Kalgoorlie to Menzies and opened on 22 March 1898. By 1900, Menzies had a population of approximately 10,000 with thirteen hotels and two breweries. There were applications for 320 mining leases, with an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie is an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia. The district includes not only the town of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Kalgoorlie, but significant parts of the outback in central and eastern Western Australia. Long a Labor stronghold, the district was lost to the Liberal Party at the 2001 Western Australian state election, 2001 state election. The new Liberal member, Matt Birney, was re-elected at the 2005 Western Australian state election, 2005 state election. The district then proceeded to change hands at every election until the 2025 Western Australian state election, 2025 state election where incumbent Labor MP Ali Kent retained the seat for the first time in 20 years. History The district of Kalgoorlie was first created for the 1901 Western Australian state election, 1901 state election and has continued to exist as an electo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Orizaba
RMS ''Orizaba'' was a Royal Mail Ship wrecked off Rockingham, Western Australia on 16 February 1905. On her approach to Fremantle, Western Australia, Fremantle, a smog of bushfire smoke was obscuring the coast and the captain lost his bearings. The ship went aground in of water on Five Fathom Bank, west of Garden Island (Western Australia), Garden Island. All 160 people on board were evacuated safely. It is one of the largest ships ever to be wrecked in Australian waters. In 2014 the wreck was still in use as a dive site. The ship was celebrated in music by Australian composer Auguste Wiegand, in his gavotte of the same name. References Further reading * * External links WA Heritage Council: "MANDURAH SHIPWRECK TRAIL", P. 2 (online-PDF 155 KB) 1886 ships Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness Maritime incidents in 1905 Ships sunk with no fatalities Shipwrecks of Western Australia {{shipwreck-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Western Australia
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative status, or historical significance. In some regions, towns are formally defined by legal charters or government designations, while in others, the term is used informally. Towns typically feature centralized services, infrastructure, and governance, such as municipal authorities, and serve as hubs for commerce, education, and cultural activities within their regions. The concept of a town varies culturally and legally. For example, in the United Kingdom, a town may historically derive its status from a market town designation or City status in the United Kingdom, royal charter, while in the United States, the term is often loosely applied to incorporated municipality, municipalities. In some countries, such as Australia and Canada, distinction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Menzies Miner
The Menzies Miner was a weekly newspaper based in the mining town of Menzies, Western Australia, which operated from 1895 to 1901. It was established in December 1895 by future federal Labor government minister Hugh Mahon Hugh Mahon (6 January 1857 – 28 August 1931) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and held ministerial office in the party's earliest governments. He served terms as Postmaster-General (1904), Mini ..., who had previously been a newspaper editor at nearby Coolgardie. It was the first newspaper on the North Coolgardie goldfields. Mahon's editorship was credited with a successful campaign for the establishment of public mining batteries and the exposure of the Perth Ice Company fraud. In 1909, Mahon was alleged to have engaged in newspaper cable piracy during his time at the ''Miner'', a claim that he strongly denied. Mahon sold the business to the owners of conservative rival Menzies newspaper the North Coolga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnegie Expedition Of 1896
The Carnegie expedition of 1896 was led by David Carnegie. It covered territory in the centre of Western Australia, including the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts. Aims and personnel The expedition was funded by Carnegie, who proposed to travel over from Coolgardie to Halls Creek. Much of the area was unexplored and unmapped, so Carnegie hoped to find good pastoral or gold-bearing land and make a name for himself as an explorer. Carnegie's party consisted of five men. His traveling companions were the prospectors Charles Stansmore and Godfrey Massie, bushman Joe Breaden, and Breaden's Aboriginal companion Warri. The initial caravan consisted of nine camels.(Note 1) Expedition The party left Coolgardie on 9 July 1896. They traveled north to Menzies, then northeast. On 23 July, they entered the largely unexplored country and were immediately affected by the extreme scarcity of water.(Note 2) By 9 August, they were desperately short of water; that day they came upon a native ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Evans (politician)
Edward Thomas "Ted" Evans (7 September 1939 – 30 April 1981) was an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1980 until his death, representing the seat of Kalgoorlie. Evans was born in the remote Goldfields town of Menzies, and attended Eastern Goldfields High School in Kalgoorlie. After leaving school, he worked for a period in the gold mines, later holding jobs as a train examiner for Commonwealth Railways and as a clerk and accountant for various mining firms. Evans was involved with the trade union movement, first as a member of the Gold Mining Clerks' Association and later as a member of the Australian Workers' Union.Edward Thomas Evans – Biographical Register of Members of the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Queensland
The governor of Queensland is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in the state of Queensland. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia, governor-general at the national level, the governor Governors of the Australian states, performs constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level. In particular the governor has the power to appoint and dismiss the premier of Queensland and all other ministers in the Cabinet government, Cabinet, and issue writs for the election of the Parliament of Queensland, state parliament. The current governor of Queensland, former Chief Health Officer of Queensland Jeannette Young, was sworn in on 1 November 2021. The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, currently Helen Bowskill, acts in the position of governor in the governor's absence. In June 2014, Queen Elizabeth II, upon the recommendation of then-Premier Campbell Newman, accorded all current, future and living former governors the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Hannah
Air Marshal Sir Colin Thomas Hannah, (22 December 1914 – 22 May 1978) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and a Governor of Queensland. Born in Western Australia, he was a member of the Militia before joining the RAAF in 1935. After graduating as a pilot, Hannah served in Nos. 22 and 23 Squadrons from 1936 to 1939. During the early years of World War II, he was the RAAF's Deputy Director of Armament. He then saw action in the South West Pacific as commander of No. 6 Squadron and, later, No. 71 Wing, operating Bristol Beaufort bombers. By 1944, he had risen to the rank of group captain, and at the end of the war was in charge of Western Area Command in Perth. Hannah commanded RAAF Station Amberley, Queensland, in 1949–50, and saw service during the Malayan Emergency as senior air staff officer at , Singapore, from 1956 to 1959. His other post-war appointments included Deputy Chief of the Air Staff from 1961 to 1965, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas William Meagher
Sir Thomas William Meagher (26 March 190227 June 1979) was a medical practitioner who, starting in 1939, served as Lord Mayor of Perth, Western Australia. A native of Menzies, Thomas Meagher attended Christian Brothers College, Perth from 1911 to 1919, and completed first-year science at the University of Western Australia in 1920. He subsequently studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, receiving his degree in 1925. On 8 March 1927 he married Marguerite Winifred Hough (died 1952) at the Chapel of Christian Brothers College. He was elected to represent Victoria Park Ward on the Perth City Council in 1937. In 1939, he was appointed Lord Mayor of Perth City Council. He was President of the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia from 1945 to 1947; in that role he helped set up RAC Insurance Pty Ltd and the National Safety Council of Western Australia. He was knighted in 1947 and, on 18 November 1953, married Doris Ita Walsh at CBC Chapel. He also served as pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Menzies
The Shire of Menzies is a local government area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, north of Kalgoorlie. It covers an area of , and its seat of government is the town of Menzies. History The Shire of Menzies originated as the Menzies Road District, which was established on 31 May 1912 after the subdivision of the North Coolgardie Road District into three separate road districts (Menzies, Kookynie and Mt Malcolm). The North Coolgardie Road District had absorbed three municipalities on 1 March 1912, including the Municipality of Menzies covering the Menzies township, but had quickly proven too large and cumbersome to administer and was broken up. The Kookynie Road District merged into the Menzies Road District in mid-1918. The Menzies Road District became a shire on 1 July 1961 under the ''Local Government Act 1960'', which reformed all remaining road districts into shires. Wards The shire is divided into three wards: * Menzies Ward (three councillors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalgoorlie To Leonora Railway Line
The Kalgoorlie to Leonora railway line or Leonora branch line is a railway line in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, connecting Kalgoorlie via Malcolm to Leonora. The line is long and formerly also had a branch line from Malcolm to Laverton. At Kalgoorlie, the railway line connects to the Eastern Goldfields Railway, where it also connects to the Esperance branch railway. History The consideration of a railway line had the proposed line mentioned as the Mount Leonora line, with even Menzies identified as Mount Menzies. The ''Kalgoorlie-Menzies Railway Act 1896'', an act by the Parliament of Western Australia assented to on 27 October 1896, authorised the construction of the railway line from Kalgoorlie to Menzies. The contract for the construction of the first section of the railway, from Kalgoorlie to Menzies, was awarded to Smith & Timms on 20 August 1897 and the railway line was opened on 13 February 1899. page 210 - contracted in May 1913 and ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
