Penarie, New South Wales

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Penarie New South Wales
LGA:	Balranald Shire Council
State District:	Murray-Darling

Penarie is a small settlement about 32 kilometres north of Balranald, in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia.  It is part of the Balranald Shire Council.  Penarie is situated at a junction on the road between Balranald and Ivanhoe, where a branch road leads to Oxley. Penarie was formerly known as Homebush.

[edit] History

On 26 July 1877 Michael Dowdican made a conditional purchase of land at the Balranald-Ivanhoe-Oxley road junction and built the Homebush Hotel, which commenced operating in 1878.^[1]

Michael Dowdican held the license of the Homebush Hotel until 1896.  From 1897 until at least 1900 the publican was William H. S. Wilkinson.^[2]

Mrs. Catherine Prendergast, widow of Patrick Prendergast (a pioneer of Maude village), “conducted the Homebush Hotel for several years”.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ ‘Outer Localities’, Balranald Shire Council web-site (accessed 5 January 2007).
2. ^ Lists of Hotel Licenses, NSW Government Gazettes.
3. ^ ‘Mrs. Catherine Prendergast’ (obituary), Riverine Grazier, 1 October 1937, p. 1.

Coordinates: 34°23′S, 143°36′E