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| The lake at the Mary
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Finley
Medium-sized service town
Located 673 south-west of Sydney via the Hume, Sturt and
Newell Highways and 107 m above sea-level Finley is a tidy
and peaceful Riverina town of 2220 people which acts as a
service centre for the Berriquin Irrigation Area that
surrounds it. The district supplies wool, wheat, fat lambs,
rice, dairy products, vegetables, cereals, cattle and pigs
for the Sydney and Melbourne markets. Local industry
includes a butter factory and foundry.
The Wiradjuri Aborigines, who inhabited the area prior to
white settlement, called it 'Carawatha', supposedly meaning
'place of pines'. Squatters from the Port Phillip district
moved into the southern and western Riverina in the early
1840s. The town grew on land leased to Benjamin Boyd (see
entry on Eden) for his 'Tuppal' station.
The first building on the future townsite was a
shepherd's dwelling known as the Murray Hut. It was located
at a midpoint between Jerilderie and Tocumwal at the
junction of two stock routes adjacent a swamp (now Finley
Lake).
Surveyor F.G. Finley surveyed 1.2 million hectares of the
Riverina district in the 1870s. Wheat cultivation developed
although water shortages were a perennial problem.The
railway arrived in 1898.
Additional land was released in 1910 when the government
purchased 55 000 acres of Tuppal station and financially
backed 127 new farming families. By the 1921 census there
were over a thousand people. However, war and the 1914
drought retarded development. After a boom in the early
1920s another drought struck in 1927 followed by the
disastrous effects of the depression. However, the
construction of the Berriquin Irrigation Area, which began
in 1935, proved a long-term boost to local prosperity.
The postwar period was one of prosperity, as the
irrigation project continued and the location of the town at
the junction of the Newell and Riverina Highways proved a
boon.
Things to see:
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| An irrigation canal near
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Finley and Irrigation
The main street of Finley bridges Mulwala Canal, at 155 km
the largest irrigation channel in Australia. At the northern
approach to town is the Wheels of Prosperity display,
intended as a symbol of water's importance to the town and
district. The landscaped foreshores of artificially
constructed Finley Lake make for a pleasant picnic or
barbecue. There is also a wharf, a boat ramp, a pool, a
gardens area and children's play facilities, including a
replica sailing ship.
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| The old log cabin at the
Mary Lawson Wayside Rest |
Mary Lawson Wayside Rest
Mary Lawson Wayside Rest, at the south end of town, also has
playground equipment. Nearby is a log cabin replica of a
pioneer home run by the historical society with a display of
local historical material, including antiquated pumping
equipment and machinery. Rotary Park, in Denison St,
contains an Aboriginal canoe tree which once stood by the
Murray River.
Loco Dam
A recent development is Loco Dam, reached by turning east at
Wollamai St. The rodeo is held at the showground in
December, the Finley Aquafest in February and the
Agricultural show in September.
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