Mantung. Service folder of local Indian who fought for Australia during World War One. Ganessa Singh's father was a land owner and farmer of Maggea. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mantung. Service folder of local Indian who fought for Australia during World War One. Ganessa Singh's father was a land owner and farmer of Maggea. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Maggea.Maggea is in the Hundred of Holder which was declared in 1893 for a communistic village settlement. But the inland parts of the Hundred away from the River Murray were not surveyed at that time. Little happened in the Hundred until the Karoonda to Waikerie railway line was surveyed and completed in late 1914. The name Maggea came from an Aboriginal word meaning “camp” according to the South Australian railways. The township was surveyed in August 1915 and proclaimed a town later that year. It soon had a general store (1915), a Post Office, the railway siding and a blacksmiths from 1922. The most prominent building in the town was the local limestone and red brick quoined hall. It was completed with volunteer labour in 1918 in time for the 1919 school year to begin in the hall. The Maggea School began with twelve pupils in 1919 and closed with nine pupils in 1967. South Australian Magarey Medallist footballer Ken Eustice received all of his primary education in the Maggea School. So the hall was both the school and the public hall for dances, meetings and social events. The hall was used for Lutheran Church services from 1927 to 1939. The township also had a Congregational Church group which met in the hall. The Congregational minister for this part of the Mallee lived in Mercunda from 1920 and then Mantung from 1927.He and his successors ran Congregational services in the Maggea hall from 1920 to 1936 when they ceased. Services were held again from 1946 to 1950. So marriages, christenings and baptisms were all conducted in the hall for both Lutherans and Congregationalists over many years. The rural population declined in the 1930s and 1940s and the town began to wither away. The railway workers cottage was removed from Maggea in 1935. The general store closed in 1937 and the school closed in 1967 as the East Murray Area School opened near Mindarie in 1968. Passenger trains to Maggea ceased in the 1970s with the last grain services on the Waikerie line occurring in 1990. The Post office finally closed in 1974. Today not even the old public hall is in use but it was still being used in the early 1990s. Pioneer settlers included the families of Castle, Dutton, Eustice, Kroemer, McGowan, Neideck, Rasheed, Shrimpton, Stoeckel, Treagus, Werfel, etc. One later farmer in the district was Kishen Singh who was born in India. He arrived in SA in 1897 and whilst moving around Yorke Peninsula as a travelling hawker he met and later married Maderline Reubenicht a school teacher at Port Vincent in 1904. They had three sons but sadly Maderline died in childbirth in 1915. With his young sons Kinshen moved to Bhagwan Singh’s property in 1919. Bhagwan Singh took up 2,140 acres of freehold land near Maggea in the Hundred of Holder as a pioneer in 1909. In 1923 Kinshen Singh bought his own farm near Alawoona. Another member of the Singh family took up freehold land in the Hundred of Bakara just to the south of Maggea. He was Ganessa Singh who bought 5,188 acres in 1910. Another Indian resident in the adjoining Hundred of Bakara was Fakar Chand who bought 5,282 acres in 1910. Three young Singh men served with the Australian forces during World War One. They were Juwan Singh with the Australian Light Horse Regiment, Sarn Singh also with the Light Horse Regiment and Ganessa Singh with the Australian Infantry Battalion. The first general store in Maggea was run by Kaiser Singh and his wife for many years until around 1930. Ganda and Madra Ramm family from India also had two town property. Their general store had several owners before it closed permanently in 1937. So this tiny little settlement was quite multicultural with its German, British and Indian settlers. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-04-28 14:15:46 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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