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Memerambi, Queensland

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Population
  
541 (2006 census)

LGA(s)
  
South Burnett Region

Memerambi
  
Corndale

Local time
  
Sunday 4:38 AM

Postcode(s)
  
4610

State electorate(s)
  
Nanango

Postal code
  
4610

Federal division
  
Division of Maranoa

Memerambi, Queensland

Location
  
239 km (149 mi) NW of Brisbane 13 km (8 mi) N of Kingaroy

Weather
  
21°C, Wind E at 8 km/h, 98% Humidity

Memerambi is a town in the South Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. The name 'Memerambi' is an Aboriginal word for Sugargum tree. The town is located in the South Burnett Region Local government area and on the Bunya Highway, 239 kilometres (149 mi) north west of the state capital, Brisbane. At the 2006 census, Memerambi and the surrounding area had a population of 541.

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Map of Memerambi QLD 4610, Australia

History

Memerambi was once a bustling centre with a hotel, two general stores, saddlery, butcher, bank, mobile sawmill and cheese factory. Today businesses in Memerambi include 'Stop Shop' general store; clock repairs; large machinery & engineering works; pharmaceutical manufacturing; stock feed store; graziers; concreting & pool construction.

Memerambi Post Office opened by September 1910 (a receiving office had been open from 1909) and closed in 1978.

Notable residents

  • Mr Kingston and his wife with their four children. Mr and Mrs Kingston were the first storekeepers in Memerambi
  • Arthur Benjamin Postle, a professional sprinter known as "The Crimson Flash", was acclaimed "the fastest man in the world" in 1906. He moved to Memerambi in 1913 and operated his own auctioning business there.
  • Ben and Harry Young, of Memerambi, pioneers of the South Burnett peanut industry, planted the first commercial crop of peanuts in the South Burnett in 1919. These brothers were sons of a Chinese immigrant, Ah Young. Harry Young later designed the first peanut thresher in Queensland and Ben became a director of the Peanut Marketing Board.

    • References

    Memerambi, Queensland Wikipedia
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