Manmanning is a small
Wheatbelt town in
Western Australia
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.
The name of the town first appeared on charts drawn in 1907, and was the
Indigenous Australian
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name of a
soak
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* Steeping
* Bathing
* Soakage (source of water), a source of water in Australian deserts
* Soak dike, ditch or drain
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* Soak (singer), Irish singer-songwrit ...
located close to the townsite.
The townsite was originally a railway siding on the
Ejanding North line and land was set aside for settlers in 1927. The townsite was gazetted in 1929.
The surrounding areas produce
wheat
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and other
cereal
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crops. The town is a
receival site for
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 ...
.
References
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Grain receival points of Western Australia
Shire of Dowerin