Adelaide. Wayville. The Kidman Gates donated by Sir Sidney Kidman's family in 1937. He died 1935. They were in front of Centennial Hall built 1936 now they are the northern entrance to the Wayville Showgrounds. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Adelaide. Wayville. The Kidman Gates donated by Sir Sidney Kidman's family in 1937. He died 1935. They were in front of Centennial Hall built 1936 now they are the northern entrance to the Wayville Showgrounds. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Introduction to life of Sir Sidney Kidman the Cattle King. (1857-1935). Do not rely on a novelist to paint a truly accurate picture of the life of Sir Sidney Kidman as there is much romanticism and sometimes little historical fact in the Ion Idriess biograph novel of Sir Sidney Kidman published in 1936. Sidney was well educated for the times and began his adult life with an inheritance from his grandfather’s estate. He might have left home at around 14 years of age with little money in his pocket on his trip to join his brother in the Barrier Ranges near Broken Hill but he was never poor or destitute. Sidney worked on several sheep stations near the Barrier Ranges in the early 1870s learning about stock and the value of Aboriginal trackers and assistants. He operated as a carrier, traded stock and set himself up in a butcher’s shop at Cobar in western NSW. His brother Sackville later had a butcher’s shop in Broken Hill. After receiving his grandfather’s inheritance in 1878 he set up a coaching company which operated in western NSW and later in Western Australia on the goldfields. Most of the Kidman coaches ran from Morgan in SA to Cobar in NSW and others ran from Morgan to Birdsville in QLD. Many of the cattle that he traded ended up in his brother’s butcher shop in Broken Hill once the mines began there in 1883. Sidney and his brother purchased their first leasehold property Cowarie Station near Lake Eyre in 1885. It was 1886 when Sidney was 29 years old that they purchased their second leasehold property, Owen Springs near Alice Springs. Just one year later when he was 30 he developed the concept of acquiring properties from the Gulf of Carpentaria down through the Channel Country of Western Queensland down into SA so that cattle could be moved from region to region following the pasture (and rains if any) and then easily driven to Adelaide for the slaughter yards and markets. Sidney was a believer in the value of the three rivers from the Gulf Country- the Georgina, the Diamantina and the Cooper Creek. By the 1890s Sidney was working on acquiring stations to develop a second chain of cattle stations from the Kimberley Ranges in WA and Victoria River in the tropical Northern Territory down through SA to the Flinders Ranges and Adelaide. He was exceedingly conscious of droughts and making his property drought proof by having other stations in other regions. These early purchases were in partnership with his brother and by 1895 they had nine outback stations. But that ceased when his brother Sackville died in 1899 and the properties were divided between two families. It was at that time that Kidman formed his own company S Kidman and Co. By 1903 Kidman had survived the great 1902-03 drought although he had lost 70,000 head of cattle and he then owned the leasehold on almost 100,000 square kilometres of country across four states and territories. He continued to acquire properties in the following 11 years so that by the World War One broke out he controlled an area bigger then England and similar to the size of the state of Victoria. As the Cattle King he put together a group of stations far greater than any other Australian ever managed and this grand pastoral estate was only sold out of the Kidman family in 2016. Fortunately another larger than life Australian Gina Rinehart purchased the remains of the Kidman Empire. Kidman still purchased cattle stations after World War One with his last purchase in 1924. By then he had 68 separate stations, with roughly 175,000 cattle and 215,000 sheep which covered an area greater than 220,000 square kilometres or 85,000 square miles or the mind boggling 54,400,000 acres! What an achievement. This was more than 3% of the total area of the continent of Australia. He was also on the boards of 18 other pastoral companies which controlled and great expanse of Australia too. When S Kidman and Company leaseholds were sold in 2016 they still covered 80,000 square kilometres across 14 stations. The pastoral empire sold for $386.5 million. The head offices at that time were at 183 Archer Street North Adelaide. During World War One Sir Sidney Kidman continued his philanthropic work and donated wool, meat, horses, ambulances and fighter aeroplanes to the Australian government and to the war effort. He guaranteed the jobs of employees who went to fight in the war and financially assisted the widows of those who did not return. He was knighted for his war efforts in 1921 when he became Sir Sidney. He was a devout Congregationalist (as was his wife Isabel who lured him away from the Anglican Church when they married); he always attended church and was generous with his donations and time for worthy causes. In 1920 he donated £1,000 to the Salvation Army and in 1921 he donated Eringa House in Kapunda to the Education Department for a high school. His public commitments included years on the Royal Horticultural Society board and he was an active member the Royal Zoological Society, the South Australian Jockey Club and the Adelaide Hunt Club. He was a strong supporter of the Inland Mission which helped those in the outback. He donated more to charities by bequests from his estate upon his death. Sir Sidney Kidman Memorials and Plaques. •The Kidman Gates at the Showgrounds were opened in 1937 after his death. They led to the front of Centennial Hall but has now gone. The gates are the northerner entrance from Rose Street. •The mural and statue outside the Kapunda Post Office with a new mural of the Kidman Memorial stamp of two and a half pence value produced by the PMG in 1949. •Two communion chairs in the Kapunda Congregational Church donated with plaques in December 1937. •Eringa House at Kapunda High School donated in 1921 to the Education Department by Sir Sidney Kidman. •Lady Kidman laid the foundation stone of the Kings Park Baptist Sunday School Hall in 1926. •The Cheltenham Congregational Church. It was officially opened by Sir Sidney Kidman in November 1926.•Kidman's Tree of Knowledge is heritage listed in Queensland. It is located on Glengyle Station in the Diamantina district near Bedourie. Supposedly Kidman sat underneath the Coolabah tree to contemplate the development of his QLD properties.•There is a Kidman road at Kapunda to commemorate his importance to the town. •Sir Sidney Kidman is one of the 169 prominent South Australians who have contributed to state development who are commemorated with a plaque in the ground along North Terrace in the Jubilee 150 Walk. It runs from King William Street to Pulteney Street. •There is a painted mural of Sir Sidney Kidman at 165 Brisbane Street Dubbo in western NSW (behind the Credit Union building.) •There is a Kidman Avenue in Kidman Park. •In western NSW there is the Kidman Way as major highway that links Bourke and Jerilderie a distance of 400 miles. It passes through the Cobar district which has such strong historical links to Kidman. •There is a Kidman River in the Northern Territory.•The Stockman’s’ Hall of Fame in Longreach has a collection of photographs, and other memorabilia that once belonged to Sir Sidney Kidman ranging from handkerchiefs to camping utensils. They have a part of one gallery devoted to his exploits and achievements. |
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