Memerambi, Queensland facts for kids
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The "Stop Shop"
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 Memerambi
Location in Queensland
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| Population | 272 (2016 census) | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 8.860/km2 (22.95/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 4610 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 30.7 km2 (11.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10:00) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | South Burnett Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Nanango | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Maranoa | ||||||||||||||
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Memerambi is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, the locality of Memerambi had a population of 272 people.
History
Memerambi was once a bustling centre with a hotel, two general stores, saddlery, butcher, bank, mobile sawmill and cheese factory. Today businesses in Memerambi include 'Stop Shop' general store; clock repairs; large machinery & engineering works; pharmaceutical manufacturing; stock feed store; graziers; concreting & pool construction.
Memerambi Post Office opened by September 1910 (a receiving office had been open from 1909) and closed in 1978.
Education
There are no schools in Memerambi. The nearest government primary schools are Wooroolin State School in neighbouring Wooroolin to the north and Crawford State School in neighbouring Crawford to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Kingaroy State High School in Kingaroy to the south.
Notable residents
- Mr Kingston and his wife with their four children. Mr and Mrs Kingston were the first storekeepers in Memerambi
- 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.
- 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.
