Newlyn North

Newlyn North
Victoria
Newlyn North is located in Shire of Hepburn
Newlyn North
Newlyn North
Coordinates37°24′06″S 143°59′49″E / 37.40178°S 143.99682°E / -37.40178; 143.99682
Population230 (2021 census)[1]
Postcode(s)3364
LGA(s)Shire of Hepburn
State electorate(s)Ripon
Federal division(s)Ballarat

Newlyn North is a locality in the Shire of Hepburn, in Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 230,[1] decreasing from 283 in the 2011 census.[2] Newlyn North and Newlyn split in 1915 after a naming dispute between the town's two post offices.

History

Newlyn, Victoria is a town in the Shire of Hepburn on the Midland Highway.[2] By 1915, Newlyn had two post offices. The first opened as the Bella Vue Post Office before it moved to the railway station and was renamed the Newlyn Railway Station Post Office.[3] The second was more to the north and had operated under the name Newlyn Post Office ever since it had opened, forty-six years prior to 1915. It was then conducted by J. Williams.[4]

In 1915, the Newlyn Railway Station Post Office relocated and now that the name no longer fit sixty residents signed a petition to rename it the Newlyn Post Office. Upon learning of this, 118 residents who were served by Williams' post office opted to keep it as the Newlyn Post Office.[3] The Postmaster-General regardless renamed it Newlyn North, much to some residents' anger.[4] Williams said in a meeting, to laughter, that:

...the residents near the Newlyn station had no more right to grab the name of their [Newlyn] Post Office than the German army had to march, over Belgium.

Newlyn and Newlyn North are 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) away from each other.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Newlyn North". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved October 25, 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c "NEWLYN". Victorian Places. Monash University; The University of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "NEWLYN. THE POST OFFICES". Creswick Advertiser. 2 February 1915. p. 2 – via Trove.
  4. ^ a b "WHAT'S IN A NAME". The Ballarat Star. 5 February 1915. p. 1 – via Trove.

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