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Katamatite
Katamatite is a town in Victoria, Australia about 46 kilometres north east of Shepparton. At the , Katamatite had a population of 433. Katamatite is located in the Murray Valley irrigation area. Township buildings were erected in 1877 and the Post Office opened on 1 December 1877. The townships name is said to be derived from a question, specifically "Kate, am I tight?" The town has an Australian rules football team competing in the Picola & District Football League. The team received publicity and notoriety back in 1925, when they defeated Wattville 78.19 (487) to 1.3 (9), in an attempt to win the minor premiership on percentage from Dookie. Notable people * Winner of the 1995 Stawell Gift : Glenn Crawford * V.F.L/A.F.L. footballer Darren Flanigan played in the ruck in a losing 1989 A.F.L. Grand Final against Hawthorn. He played 130 A.F.L. games for Geelong (1981–91) kicking 50 goals and 8 games for St Kilda (1992) kicking 4 goals. * V.F.L./A.F.L. footballer Gary Camer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katamatite Football Club
The Katamatite Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Tigers'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the small Victorian town of Katamatite. The club teams currently compete in the Picola & District League. History Katamatite's first documented match dates back to June, 1891, when the local team travelled to Dookie and were soundly beaten. In 1892 and 1893 they played in the Geyde's Victoria Hotel (Cobram) Trophy competition. In 1894 and 1895, Katamatite played some friendly matches against other local towns, after their application to join the Goulburn Valley Football Association was rejected. During the mid 1890s, it appears that the local Katamatite footballers, played with the Muckatah Football Club and played some of their home games on the Katamatite ground too. In May, 1898, a meeting of about 40 locals was held at Allan's Hotel, Katamatite with the view of re-forming the football club and entering the Tungamah or Yarrawonga Football Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picola & District Football League
The Picola & District Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league affiliated with the AFL Victoria Country. The league covers a large area of northern Victoria and southern New South Wales from Shepparton in the south to Jerilderie in the north and consists of teams from the smaller communities and towns. History The original Picola & District Football Association was formed on Saturday 13 May 1905 at the Picola Hotel, with delegates representing the following clubs – Barmah, Koptupna, Moira, Nathalia and Picola present and was active until 1907. At a meeting of club delegate's on Tuesday, 26 May 1908 at the Federal Hall from the – Federal, Koptupna, Moira, Nathalia and Picola football clubs, it was decided to form an association called the Western and Moira Ridings Football Association and was a strong and vibrant competition up until 1933. At the 1934 annual general meeting of the Western and Moira Football Association it was decide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dookie United Football Club
The Dookie United Football Netball Club, known as the "Dooks", is an Australian rules football and netball club playing in the Kyabram District Football Netball League. Dookie United is based in the small Victorian town of Dookie. The club changed leagues in 2018, following an administration disagreement between the AFL Goulburn-Valley and the Picola & District Football League. History Dookie Football Club – 1887 to 1976 The original Dookie Football Club was established in 1887. In one of Dookie's earliest recorded matches in 1891, Dookie: 6.20 – 56 defeated Katamatite: 0.0 – 0 at Dookie. In July 1903, The Dookie FC was reformed with office bearers and a committee elected. The club colors selected were – navy blue and white, with a red sash, with blue and white socks. In 1906, the Dookie Football Association was formed, with Dookie finishing on top of the ladder and winning the premiership. In 1912, Dookie FC won two premierships, defeating Caniambo in the Dookie F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katamatite East, Victoria
Katamatite East is a locality in Victoria, Australia in the local government area of the Shire of Moira. Cobram East borders the north of the locality, Katamatite borders the west and south of the locality, and Boosey Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass, string and woodwind musical instruments. Formed in 1930 throu ... borders the east of the locality. References Towns in Victoria (Australia) Shire of Moira {{Hume-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youanmite, Victoria
Youanmite is a locality in the Shire of Moira. It is located near the intersection of Youanmite and Katamatite roads, approximately 25 km southwest of Yarrawonga and approximately 200 km northeast of Melbourne, Australia. Youanmite was once a small town having its own schools, churches, and post office. Comprising medium to large farms the area is predominantly agricultural, focusing on grain production as well as sheep and cattle grazing. Early years The traditional owners of the land are the Yorta Yorta people who inhabited a large area south of the Murray river. It was not until 1824, when Hamilton Hume and William Hovell passed through the area on their expedition from New South Wales to Geelong in Victoria, that the land was assessed and opened for settlement. Squatters soon moved in and vast stations for wheat production and livestock grazing were quickly established. During the 1860s the Victorian Land Acts allowed for the subdivision of large holdings and a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muckatah, Victoria
Muckatah is a locality in northern Victoria, Australia in the local government area of the Shire of Moira. The word Muckatah means 'a little plain'. History The post office opened on 1 November 1881 and was closed on 30 June 1920. Settlers arrived in Muckatah about 1876 when the area was thickly covered by huge trees. These were felled by axe, cut into lengths with a crosscut saw, shaped by broad axe and made into dwellings. The first crops of wheat were grown on areas of up to 10 acres or so with the bags of grain carted to Benalla and later, Numurkah. A bush track was used to travel to Shepparton for mail and supplies. The earliest selections were of 320 acres. A racecourse was in use by 1895 and a golf course on the same site in later years. Some early settlers were Nunan, Noonan, Salmon, Parnell, Gleeson, Lane, Hanrahan, Charles, Jessop, Flynn, Keady, Kennedy, Dunn, Walsh, McIntyre, Fields, Duffy and McCormack. In the early village was a hotel, post office and blacksmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Victoria (Australia)
This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned by Local Government Areas of Victoria, Local Government Area (LGA). Localities are bounded areas recorded on VICNAMES, although boundaries are the responsibility of each council. Many localities cross LGA boundaries, some being partly within three LGAs, but are listed here once under the LGA in which the major population centre or area occurs. The Office of Geographic Names (OGN), led by the Registrar of Geographic Names, administers the naming or renaming of localities (as well as roads, and other features) in Victoria, and maintains the Register of Geographic Names, referred as the VICNAMES register, pursuant to the ''Geographic Place Names Act 1998''. The OGN has issued the mandatory ''Naming rules for places in Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Cameron
Gary Cameron (born 14 June 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian (VFL) and Australian Football Leagues. Cameron, a Katamatite recruit, who won the Tungamah Football League best and fairest award, the Lawless Medal in 1986, played eight games for Geelong in each of his first two seasons, 1987 and 1988. He appeared in the final five rounds of the 1989 VFL season, but didn't take part in the Geelong's finals series. After another five games in 1990, Cameron left to play for South Adelaide Football Club The South Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club that competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Known as the ''Panthers'', their home ground is Flinders University Stadium [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Flanigan
Darren Flanigan (born 8 March 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and St Kilda in the Victorian and Australian Football Leagues. Flanigan came to Geelong from the Victorian town of Katamatite and during the early 1980s acted as their back up ruckman. He got more regular game time in 1985, the same year he was named in Victoria's interstate team. In 1989 Flanigan appeared in the VFL Grand Final, coming off the bench in the loss to Hawthorn. He finished his career with a season at St Kilda in 1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines .... Flanigan is currently the AFL Victoria female football manager. References * *Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invergordon, Victoria
Invergordon is a town in northern Victoria, Australia. The town is located 31 km from Numurkah (33 min drive) and 37 km from Shepparton (41 min drive). It is predominantly a farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ... area. At the , Invergordon and the surrounding area had a population of 647. The Post Office opened on 1 February 1882 as Drumanure, was renamed Invergordon in 1885, Invergordon North in 1966 and closed in 1970. An Invergordon South Post Office opened in 1927 and closed in 1953. The football club folded in 1987 due to population decline in the district and in 2018 Invergordon primary school closed after the last four students left the area. The school was later reopened in 2021 as a campus of Greater Shepparton Secondary College. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naring, Victoria
Naring is a locality in northern Victoria, Australia. The locality includes the former locality of Naringaningalook. It is in the local government area of Shire of Moira Moira Shire Council is a Local Government Area in the Northern Victoria Region of Victoria, Australia. Located in the north-east part of the state, it covers an area of . As at June 2021 the population was 30,018. It includes the towns of Co .... Naringaningalook West post office opened on 8 September 1914 and was closed on 27 February 1965. Naringaningalook East post office opened on 8 September 1914 and was closed on 14 December 1915. References External links Towns in Victoria (Australia) Towns in Goulburn Valley Shire of Moira {{Hume-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobram East, Victoria
Cobram East is locality situated in the Shire of Moira, Victoria, Australia. The locality is close to Murray River The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) ( Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longe .... It has a caravan park. There are numerous walking tracks in the state forest. The post office there opened as 'Cobram' on 1 January 1870, then got renamed to 'Boomerang' on 1 January 1888 due to another post office opening west of it on the same date. 'Boomerang Post Office' was renamed to 'Cobram East' on 12 March 1888 and later closed on 31 May 1961. References Towns in Victoria (Australia) Shire of Moira {{Hume-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
