Bunjil is a small town in

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located on the Mullewa Wubin Road north of

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in the

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region. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 61. The townsite was gazetted in 1914, after being initially established as a railway siding in 1913 to allow transport of crops and stock. The name is

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in origin but its meaning is unknown. In 1932 the

Wheat Pool of Western Australia Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia, commonly known as the Wheat Pool of Western Australia, is a cooperative of wheat growers in Western Australia. The cooperative was formed in 1922 and one of the inaugural trustees was Charles Walter Harp ...

announced that the town would have two

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, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding. The main industry in town is

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farming with the town being a

Cooperative Bulk Handling The CBH Group (commonly known as CBH, an acronym for Co-operative Bulk Handling), is a grain growers' cooperative that handles, markets and processes grain from the wheatbelt of Western Australia. History CBH was formed on 5 April 1933, at a ...

receival site.

References

{{authority control Shire of Perenjori Grain receival points of Western Australia