Page 4 - Travellers' Tour of Manangatang Booklet

Come with me on a little
Come with me on a little

tour of Manangatang
tour of Manangatang

Wattle Street, the main business
district of Manangatang was very
very busy during the 1940s, 50, &
60s. And would you believe that
Manangatang had its own Coffee
Palace? (which fell victim to fire
in the early 1940s) just a little way
up from the present hotel, where The railway reached Manangatang
it could be reached easily by the early 1914…and the station building
travellers alighting from the trains was constructed in 1916…unfortunately
at the station opposite. it burnt down in 1922 and a smaller
station building was constructed. The
station yard was a busy place when
a train came in, as residents came to
collect passengers, perishable and
grocery items, household goods,
machinery, empty egg boxes to be
filled again etc. Of course at harvest
time massive piles of bagged wheat
were stored in the railway yard ready to
be sent off to the millers and for export.

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