Talk:Mount Barker, Western Australia

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I have added the following phrase that was found on the mount barker south australia page with the appropriate changes made: "Mail and emergency phone calls are sometimes accidentally exchanged with Mount Barker, Western Australia.". This statement is true of both towns.

It was already there. Snottygobble 12:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Content[edit]

As a resident of Mount Barker, Western Australia, I've taken it upon myself to add substantial content to this page. There is still some work to do on wiki links, references (with links) and formatting. Hope I haven't stepped on anyone's toes. Comments welcome at this point. --AndrewD MBarker 15:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely not, very solid contribution and much appreciated! I'll have a look through it in the next few days and see what we can add to get it to a B-class article. Orderinchaos78 06:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good work you guys. Last time I looked at this article (sometime during IAP development) it was a small stub, now its quite good. What do you think of mine (Mount Barker, South Australia) I have been doing stacks of work on it recently. --TheJosh 09:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Census stats[edit]

Really just a dump of Census stats in a possibly usable form:

2001 census: ^[1]

117/1722 (6.8%) Aboriginal
16.5% born overseas - UK No.1 (10.1%)
23% 60 or over
Main religions: Anglican (28.2%), no religion (21.9%), Catholic (11.5%), Baptist (6.4%), Uniting (6.3%)
91.7% of dwellings are separate houses (94.3% of residents)
Agriculture, retail, manufacturing, education and health key employers
Median age 36, median income $300-$399 (above regional average)

Orderinchaos78 06:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (19 November 2002). "Community Profile Series : Mount Barker (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2001 Census of Population and Housing. Retrieved 2007-02-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

WA Land Company[edit]

My understanding that Mt Barker evolved from the work of the WA Land Company, who built the railway on the land grant principle - this seems to not be clearly reflected in this article, or in the linked article re the Great Southern Railway - I don't have access to much on Mt Barker, and the WA land Company - Is someone able to dig up the info? Sulzer55 (talk) 22:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Round House[edit]

I found this article on the Round House, from the March 16, 1960 edition of Women's Weekly, page 11:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/5794502?zoomLevel=2

There are a couple of old photos there.

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[abs-1] Australian Bureau of Statistics (19 November 2002). "Community Profile Series : Mount Barker (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2001 Census of Population and Housing. Retrieved 2007-02-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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