Sir Robert Menzies

Posted in 1896

  • Wagon load of grain sacks drawn by a bullock team, Jeparit Jeparit is thought to be an Aboriginal term for 'home of small birds'.
  • "Jeparit owed its existence to settlers who in the 1880s selected land in the extreme north of the Wimmera, braving low rainfall, summer heat, poor soils and the daunting task of clearing a stubborn cover of scrub, mainly mallee. The Wimmera area, containing almost 17,000 square kilometres of land adjoining the South Australian border, had for its first European exploiters squatters who followed the tracks of the explorers, Thomas Mitchell and Edward Eyre."
    A W Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life. Vol 1 1894-1943, 1993 p 5.