Memerambi, Queensland

Memerambi is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2016 census, Memerambi had a population of 272 people.[1]

Memerambi Queensland
The "Stop Shop"
Memerambi
Coordinates	26.4497°S 151.8233°E / -26.4497; 151.8233
Population	272 (2016 census)[1]
• Density	8.860/km^2 (22.95/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	4610
Area	30.7 km^2 (11.9 sq mi)
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10:00)
Location	239 km (149 mi) NW of Brisbane 13 km (8 mi) N of Kingaroy
LGA(s)	South Burnett Region
State electorate(s)	Nanango
Federal Division(s)	Maranoa
Localities around Memerambi: Wooroolin Wooroolin Corndale Gordonbrook Memerambi Corndale Crawford Crawford Kingaroy

Geography

The town is on the Bunya Highway, 239 kilometres (149 mi) north west of the state capital, Brisbane.

History

The name Memerambi is an Aboriginal word for the sugargum tree.[2]

Memerambi was once a bustling centre with a hotel, two general stores, saddlery, butcher, bank, mobile sawmill and cheese factory.

Memerambi Post Office opened by September 1910 (a receiving office had been open from 1909) and closed in 1978.[4]

Memerambi Provisional School opened on 16 October 1905. On 1 January 1909 it became Memerambi State School. It was mothballed on 31 December 2006 and closed in December 2007.[5]

All Saints' Anglican Church was dedicated on 9 April 1912. It closed circa 1966.[6]

At the 2006 census, Memerambi and the surrounding area had a population of 541.[7]

Facilities

Today businesses in Memerambi include 'Stop Shop' general store; clock repairs; large machinery & engineering works; pharmaceutical manufacturing; stock feed store; graziers; concreting & pool construction.[8]

Notable residents

• Mr Kingston and his wife with their four children. Mr and Mrs Kingston were the first storekeepers in Memerambi[9]
• 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.[10]
• 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.[11]

See also

• Kingaroy Peanut Silos

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Memerambi (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
2. "Memerambi - town in South Burnett Region (entry 21580)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
3. "Memerambi - locality in South Burnett Region (entry 49594)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
4. Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
5. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
6. Anglican Church of Southern Queensland. "Closed Churches". Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
7. Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Memerambi (Kingaroy Shire)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 April 2009.
8. Locafy: Local Area Marketing, accessed on 2011-11-13.
9. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia, Image sourced from Picture Queensland, State Library of Queensland This image is free of copyright restrictions.
10. Australian Dictionary of Biography Archived 7 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on 2011-11-13.
11. "History of the Australian Peanut Industry". Peanut Company of Australia. Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2009.

External links

• Town map of Memerabi, 1979