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Noggerup, Western Australia
Noggerup is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality of the Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of Western Australia. A large portion of the Greater Preston National Park is located within Noggerup. Noggerup was once a siding on the Donnybrook–Katanning railway, but the railway line ceased operation in 1982. The Noggerup siding, which opened in 1908 as the Preston Valley siding, was soon renamed and eventually closed in 1985. The origin of the townsite of Noggerup dates back to the arrival of the railway, when a request for a terminus at the Sexton & Drysdale's Mill was made in 1907. Noggerup's location was fixed and surveyed the following year and gazetted in 1909. Initially, the town was spelled Noggerupp, in accordance with spelling requirements for Aboriginal place names in the state. The second p at the end of the name was omitted in 1915, but the meaning of the name is not known. Noggerup and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Collie-Preston
Collie-Preston is a Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly Electoral districts of Western Australia, electorate in the states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. While the seat was known as Collie for just over a century of its existence as an electorate, the seat was known as South West Mining from 1901 to 1904, and Collie-Wellington from 2005 to 2008. It is named for the South West (Western Australia), South West coal mining town of Collie, Western Australia, Collie. While historically a very safe seat for the Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party, redistributions in 1988 and 2007 due to increases in the quota for country seats which had historically been Apportionment (politics)#Malapportionment, malapportioned resulted in the seat incorporating surrounding rural shires which were hostile to Labor and thereby becoming more marginal. History Collie was originally created as the seat of "South West Mining" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
