Melawondi is a rural
locality
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in the
Gympie Region,
Queensland
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, Australia.
It is located south of
Gympie. In the Melawondi had a population of 30 people.
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Geography
Melawondi railway station is an abandoned railway station on the Mary Valley railway line ().
History
The locality takes its name from a former railway station. ''Melawondi'' is believed to be the name of an Aboriginal clan.
Heritage listings
Melawondi has a number of heritage-listed
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many ...
sites, including:
* Melawondi's cream shed (), one of the three Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds
Economy
Melawondi Mill is a timber mill owned by Superior Wood Pty Ltd (). The mill employs approximately 100 people.
Education
There are no schools in Melawondi. The nearest primary school is Kandanga State School in neighbouring Kandanga to the north-west. The nearest secondary school is Mary Valley State College in neighbouring Imbil
Imbil is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Imbil had a population of 924 people.
Geography
Imbil is in the Wide Bay–Burnett district in the Mary River valley, north of the state capital, Brisb ...
to the south but it only offers secondary education to Year 10. For secondary education to Year 12 the nearest school is Gympie State High School
Gympie State High School is a coeducational public secondary school located in Gympie in the Wide Bay–Burnett region in Queensland, Australia. The school has a total enrolment of more than 900 students per year, with an official count of 922 s ...
in Gympie to the north.
References
{{Gympie Region
Gympie Region
Localities in Queensland