Kulja is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of

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. The town is situated along the Bonnie Rock to Burakin Road. The area was charted in 1908 and the

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name of a local

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was recorded as Kulja. The townsite was originally established in the late 1920s as part of a

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on the Ejanding North Railway line. The townsite was gazetted in 1928 once a large enough local population had settled in the area. The surrounding areas produce

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and other

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crops. The town is a receival site for

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History

Kulja had a

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between 1928 and 1973. There was also a post office called Kulja Railway Construction between 1929 and 1931. 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.

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{{authority control Wheatbelt (Western Australia) Grain receival points of Western Australia Populated places established in 1928