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Yanco Railway Station
Yanco is a village with a population of 505 in Leeton Shire in south western New South Wales, Australia. Yanco is a Wiradjuri aboriginal language word meaning ''the sound of running water''. Yanco is located from Leeton along Irrigation Way. Yanco is home to the Powerhouse Museum, McCaughey Park, Murrumbidgee Rural Studies Centre and Yanco Agricultural High School. Yanco North Post Office opened on 1 March 1888. It was renamed ''Yanko'' in 1892 and ''Yanco'' in 1928. Football The town has a team in the Group 20 Rugby League competition with neighbouring village Wamoon, the Yanco-Wamoon Hawks. They are renowned for winning five successive titles from 1992 to 1996, a competition record. The club briefly merged with rivals Narrandera from 2012 to 2014 as the Bidgee Hurricanes, but the sides demerged ahead of the 2015 season. They play at the Yanco Sports Ground, a picturesque oval located across the railway and irrigation channel from the town centre. The town had a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bills Horse Troughs
Bills horse troughs are watering troughs that were manufactured in Australia and installed to provide relief for working horses in the first half of the twentieth century. The troughs were financed by a trust fund established through the will of George Bills. A total of around 700 troughs were distributed by the trust in Australia and 50 in several other countries. George and Annis Bills George Bills was born in Brighton in England in 1859. He migrated with his family to New Zealand and subsequently to Echuca, Victoria, in Australia in 1873. In 1882 he opened a bird dealers shop in Brisbane, where he met and married Annis Swann who had immigrated from Sheffield in England. In 1884 the couple moved to Sydney and George Bills went into business with his brothers, manufacturing innerspring mattresses. In 1908, George retired to Hawthorn, Victoria, and in 1910, Annis died while the couple were visiting England. George became a Life Governor of the RSPCA in 1924. Trust fund George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanco Powerhouse Museum
Yanco Powerhouse Museum is located at Binya Street in Yanco, New South Wales, Australia. Yanco Power Station was built in 1913 to supply power to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, when power was required for general lightning and for the Leeton Butter Factory. The site on which it was constructed was chosen as it was close to the Yanco railway line for obtaining coal and close to a water source that would be used for condensing water using a secondhand 75 KW generator. of transmission lines were installed on flexible steel poles, the first of their kind in Australia. The station's construction is concrete. In 1937, the five story building was extended. It was decommissioned in 1957 when the Snowy Mountains Scheme was completed and hydro-electric power Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitton, New South Wales
Whitton is a small town located in Leeton Shire in the Australian state of New South Wales and is located 23km west of the Leeton township. Founded in 1850, it is named after John Whitton (1820–98), Engineer-in-Charge of the New South Wales Government Railways. The railway reached Whitton in 1881. At the , Whitton had a population of 496. History Whitton was originally named "Hulong" and is the oldest town in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. It developed on a main teamster route transporting goods to the South-West of New South Wales. Hulong was renamed to Whitton in 1883. Services The Whitton township contains the Ricebowl Hotel, a general store, a post office, St Carthage Catholic Church (closed), Whitton Uniting Church (closed), St John's Anglican Church, a fire station, a bowling club, a primary school, a public swimming pool and a number of houses. Whitton also supports several Agribusiness manufacturing business such as ''Southern Cotton's'' Cotton gin and ''Voyag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farrer Football League
The Farrer Football Netball League (FFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing nine clubs based in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The league features three grades in the Australian rules football competition, with these being First-Grade, Reserve-Grade and Under 17s. In the netball competition there are four grades, with these being A-Grade, A-Reserve Grade, B-Grade and C-Grade. Currently a home and away season consisting of eighteen rounds is played. The best five teams then play off according to the McIntyre System, culminating in the FFNL Grand Final, which is traditionally held at Maher Oval in Wagga Wagga. History Breakaway The Farrer Football League first formed in 1957 as a breakaway from the Albury & District Football League. Culcairn, Henty, Holbrook and Mangoplah-Cookardinia United competed in the first season. In 1958 all remaining clubs from the Albury & District Football League moved across to the new league. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrandera
Narrandera ( ) until around 1949 also spelled "Narandera", is a town located in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, Australia. The town lies on the junction of the Newell and Sturt highways, adjacent to the Murrumbidgee River, and it is considered the gateway to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. At the 2016 census, Narrandera had a population of 3,746 people. History Narrandera is a river town with a rich heritage. Captain Charles Sturt is credited with being the first European to observe the area that later was to become known as Narrandera. However Sturt, who passed through the district on 12 December 1829, was not the first explorer to cast eyes on the Murrumbidgee River. The upper Murrumbidgee, the "Big Water", was first noted in April 1821 by Charles Throsby. The name ''Narrandera'' is derived from Wiradjuri ''nharrang'', meaning " frill-necked lizard". and the name of the local Narrungderah Clan. Massacre of Narrungderah people The local indigenous pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wamoon
Wamoon is a village in Leeton Shire in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamoon is located from Leeton along the Irrigation Way to the Leeton CBD and Henry Lawson Drive to the Leeton suburb of Wattle Hill. Wamoon provides a village of homes to the farmers of northern Leeton and there is a small primary school known as Wamoon Public School. Wamoon Post Office opened in July 1920 and closed in 1983. In 1993 Geographical Names Board of New South Wales deleted Wamoon when the village was removed from official government publication of locality names. In May 2006 the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales approved the reinstatement of Wamoon as a village. Sports The town has a team in the Group 20 Rugby League competition with neighbouring village Yanco, the Yanco-Wamoon Hawks. They are renowned for winning five successive titles from 1992-1996, a competition record. The club briefly merged with rivals Narrandera Narrandera ( ) until around 1949 also spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group 20 Rugby League
Group 20 is a rugby league competition in the region of Griffith, New South Wales, Australia. The competition is played in five grades, with these being Under 16s, Under 18s, Women's League-Tag, Reserve Grade and First Grade. Currently, a home and away season consisting of eighteen rounds is played. The best five teams then play-off according to the McIntyre System, culminating in the Group 20 Grand Final, which is traditionally held at E.W. Moore Oval in Griffith, currently known as Solar Mad Stadium for sponsorship purposes. Current clubs There are currently nine clubs in the competition. Map Previous clubs First Grade Grand Finals Ladies League Tag Grand Finals Juniors Group 20 Junior Rugby League * Coleambally-Darlington Point JRL * Griffith Waratahs Tigers Juniors * Griffith Panthers JRL * Hay Magpies JRL * Leeton Raiders JRL * Narrandera Lizards (Seniors are in Group 17) * Tullibigeal-Lake Cargelligo Sharks JRL * Yenda Blueheelers JRL Juniors playing in NRL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanco Agricultural High School
The Yanco Agricultural High School, abbreviated as YAHS, is a Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded Mixed-sex education, co-educational Selective school (New South Wales), academically selective and specialist secondary school, secondary boarding school, located in Yanco, New South Wales, Yanco in the Leeton Shire Local government in Australia, local government area, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Yanco Agricultural High School is one of four Government of New South Wales, government Agricultural education#Australia, agricultural high schools; and is the only residential boarding school in New South Wales to have no day students. The school serves the south of New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria, with the other agricultural high schools serving the other regions of the state. Established in March 1922, the school catered for approximately 300 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, including eight percent who identified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
