| Quairading
Latitude : 32 01 S Longitude
: 117 24 E
Quarading is a townsite in the
central agricultural area, 166 km east of Perth. It is situated 69
km from York on the road between York and Bruce Rock. Quairading derives
its name from the nearby Quairading Spring, an Aboriginal name first
recorded by surveyor Alexander Forrest in 1872. The meaning of this
name may be related to "Quairit", an Aboriginal word for
the eldest girl of a family, although another source gives it as "home
of the bush kangaroo"- "quara".
In 1907 the government decided
to build
a railway from Greenhills (near York) to Quairading, and also decided
to declare a townsite at the terminus. As the Quairading Spring was
nearby this was selected as the name, but the district surveyor thought
it should be spelt "Kwerading", a more correct spelling
pronounced "kwera ding". Local usage of the Q spelling ensured
the adoption of this name, and Quairading was gazetted a townsite
in late 1907.
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sponsored by the
Western Australian Department of Agriculture
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