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Wudinna. Wudinna was named after a granite hill just to the north of the town, Mount Wudinna or Weedna. Both spellings have been used. Mount Wudinna was first sighted by the white explorer John Charles Darke in 1844 when he was searching for good pastoral lands. He was fatally speared by Aborigines during his explorations and Darke Peake to the south of Wudinna was named after him. It was at Mount Wudinna granite hill that the first white pastoralist George Standley took up a run of ten square miles in 1861. The term “ weedna” or “woodna” comes from the local Aboriginal people who used it to refer to a boomerang. Like Minnipa, the next main town to the west, the area around Wudinna was surveyed around 1913 and the Hundred of Wudinna was declared in 1916 but with the first farmers arriving in 1915 and with the town being formally established in 1919. The first ten farming families around Wudinna were the McMahon, Rowley, Barnes, Trigg, Butterfield( two families), Johnson ( two families), Spier and Woodrup. Like Minnipa the railway line from Port Lincoln reached the district in 1913 setting the scene for the surveying and the 1916 town development. The first trains operated as early as 1915 with a passenger train timetable existing for the train travelling from Port Lincoln to Ceduna and Thevenard. It took two days with an overnight stay in Minnipa! The first buildings in Wudinna pre dated the official declaration of the town in 1919. Those buildings were a railway siding building from 1915, a wooden Post Office and General Store in 1917 and an institute hall which was used as the first town school from 1919. Wudinna held is first annual agricultural show in 1920. The government built a local limestone and red brick school in 1927 and the town school was moved out of the institute hall to this new room. This Wudinna school was converted to an Area (primary and secondary) School in 1978 and the original 1927 building in still in use on the school grounds. A water supply for the town was important and in 1922 the government built a small dam wall around Mount Wudinna to catch rainfall runoff. This was superseded with a reticulated water pipeline from the Tod Reservoir near Port Lincoln in 1925. The District Council of Minnipa was established in 1925 after a public meeting of townspeople from both Minnipa and Wudinna and from its inception Council meetings were held in Wudinna. In 1932, to reflect the growth of Wudinna, the council was changed to Le Hunte District Council named after a Governor of South Australia, Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte. In 2008 the district Council changed its name again to Wudinna District Council. Other early buildings in the town from the 1920s and 1930s include the Wudinna Hotel built in free cut limestone blocks in 1926, the old Bank of South Australia and St Anne Catholic Church built in 1938. Wudinna until recently had an Anglican Church in a converted house which has now been sold, a fine modern Uniting Church ( formerly Methodist) and a modern brick Lutheran Church. The Uniting and Lutheran churches cooperate with joint services for the town. Next to the modern Uniting Church is the old Methodist manse from 1922 when the first Methodist church was also built. Because it is the centre of a grain, mainly wheat growing district the township of Wudinna unveiled a giant pale pink granite statue to commemorate the efforts of grain and sheep farmers in 2009. The eight metre tall statue took two years to sculpt and it is the work of artist Marijan Bekic. The statue contains 400 tons of local pink granite and is located right on Highway One. It took 17 years from inception to completion as funding was always an issue for the local Council. Wudinna has a population of around 600 people. |
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| Author | denisbin from Adelaide, Australia |
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