Washed by the calm waters of a protected bay on the lower east coast of Yorke Peninsula, Stansbury is a popular holiday spot, particularly with families. The town looks out over Gulf St Vincent, and the water is ideal for swimming, diving and skiing. There's a pontoon near the jetty which the kids will love. Stansbury was officially proclaimed in by Governor Anthony Musgrave in honour of a friend, and the first settler in the district was Alfred Weaver, who brought 7, sheep with him.
Weaver built a shearing shed in where Stansbury now stands. Due to the abundance of oysters found in the bay, Stansbury was originally known as Oyster Bay and had a reputation for the best oysters in South Australia. For a number of years, there were between 15 and 20 oyster dredges working the bay, until eventually it was fished out. These days there are a number of oyster leases along the coastal waters, and in fact many of the oysters which start life here are ongrown as those famous Coffin Bay oysters.
Visitors have a choice of accommodation including the Stansbury Foreshore Caravan Park which features beach front lawn sites and deluxe ensuite villas and cabins, a modern camp kitchen and amenities block.
There are many other holiday homes, motels and units available for holiday rental within the town. The Dalrymple Hotel, overlooking Oyster Bay, provides a wonderful range of food, cold beer and a great selection of South Australian wines. Sporting facilities include a nine-hole golf course, adult gym equipment along the foreshore, tennis and basketball courts, Chi Kung QI Gong bowls club visitors welcome , table tennis and line dancing.
Soccer, cricket and football are all played on the town oval during their season. Stansbury is the perfect place to stay and plan day trips to local attractions and events on the Yorke Peninsula. Phone 08 Welcome to Stansbury.
A Moreton Bay fig tree was planted as a memorial to the soldiers of World War I, later being relocated to the foreshore near the jetty; commemorative gates were hung at the Recreation Ground in memory of the soldiers of World War II. Productivity The oyster beds that gave the district its first name also provided one of the first commercial enterprises for the town.
But after intensive dredging the beds were exhausted by In Jim McIntyre introduced oyster farming into the clear waters of the bay. Other fishing also flourished in the bay, until over-fishing reduced stocks.
The early farmers opted for fruit growing due to the poorness of the soil. Wheat and barley became the main crops in the district with the introduction of superphosphate in the s.
Dairying was for many years a thriving business with the South Australian Farmers' Union opening a factory in Stansbury in At its peak it produced pounds of butter a week. Increasing wool prices saw cows being replaced by sheep: less labour-intensive sheep were providing a better return for farmers. The butter factory closed in Lime kilns were established in by Charles Dry; three years later Albert Pitt opened his first kiln and eventually operated nine kilns producing over 30, bags per annum.
Other firms also entered this lucrative business. Ltd was formed with A W G Pitt as the first managing director. The cement works were built at Birkenhead Port Adelaide and ketches carried the limestone across the gulf. The Stansbury quarry was abandoned in because of high clay content: the shallowness of the bay and the closeness to the town were also seen as disabilities. Operations were moved four miles south to Klein Point.
A jetty was built here, and other amenities to assist the loading of the ketches, later larger steamships. The company's custom built vessel Accolade II carries limestone across the gulf daily. Schools and churches There were several privately operated schools in the district before the Government school was built in The private schools continued to operate well into the 20th century, one as late as Secondary education is provided by Area Schools at Minlaton and Yorketown. A Christian Church serving all Protestant religions was begun in January being held in the home of James Cornish, until the church was opened for worship in , on land donated by Jacob Abbot.
Methodists were served by an itinerant minister for several years. Then in December the Methodist church building was completed and opened in time for Christmas. Transport and other amenities Bullock drawn wagons were later replaced by horse drawn vehicles including smart buggies.
Goods were delivered to Stansbury by ketch, later steamer, and the jetty would be thronged on Thursdays and Saturdays as farmers and residents collected their mail and supplies. By motor vehicles were replacing these modes of transport although horses were still being used for agricultural purposes.
As the roads improved road transport took over the role of the steamships in delivering goods. The ketch trade lingered longer but once the bulk loading facilities for grain became available at Ardrossan , Wallaroo and Port Giles , these became a thing of the past.
Electricity was supplied in the town by the local garage from ; in this was taken over by Electricity Trust of South Australia and in the town was connected to the main grid from the Osborne Power Station. Reticulated water reached the town in Sports The town has an active sports programme with football, netball, tennis, bowling, golf and boating facilities.
The first settlers on Yorke Peninsula were squatters. Wool and shearing sheds were in the township of Stansbury itself.
In those early days, the town was named Oyster Bay; it had one of the best-known oyster beds in Australian waters. Up to 17 ships at a time were working on these beds; using a heavy iron bar to drag the sea-bed and trailing a net to scoop up the loosened oyster shells.
In , the Government threw open the land comprising the Hundreds of Dalrymple and Ramsay for closer settlement. The development during during the next 14 years appears to have been very rapid.
During those few years, the Christian Church and the Methodist Church, two hotels, Police Station, Primary School, Post office, Government Tank, three stores, two wheat store sheds and the "old" jetty were built. They left Port Noarlunga early in the day in the ''Sailor Prince" and after some rather exciting experiences, hove to in the bay - As there was no jetty passengers were rowed ashore by dinghy and when the dinghy grounded, the men folk carried the women ashore to prevent their long frocks from getting wet.
It was dusk when the party landed on the beach, where they were met by the Brundells, who had come overland earlier. These good neighbours drove the new arrivals in there box spring cart to their new home, situated just a couple of miles out of Stansbury near where Mr. Anderson where now live. It was of wattle and daub construction, with the end wall, enclosing the fireplace of stone and clay. Kangaroos were numerous and provided a considerable part of the settlers' diet.
Walter Anderson, of Stansbury remembers much of the old days, and he is amazed that, despite the primitive conditions, he never went hungry. In the Jubilee Celebrations at Stansbury on Tuesday next, the arival of the group of settlers is to be re-enacted. It is planned that they will come into harbor in Mr, George Gill's cutter, the "Sealore. They are due to leave the cutter at Although the day opened fair, bad weather dogged our footsteps all day.
It spoiled the While this was on, the group of 'early settlers' were approaching Stansbury in Mr. George Gill's cutter, and a party of "aborigines" had settled themselves in a wurly on the seashore.
Despite wind-driven rain many people gathered on the shore where the Anderson's had actually landed in While the dinghy was being rowed in, Mr. He referred to the sheep station which reached right into where the town is now situated. He outlined briefly the story of the first two farmer settlers — Rev. Christian Teichelmann and Mr.
George Brundell. The Rev. Teichelmann built the first store in Stansbury, conducted the flrsl Sunday School and helped to found the Methodist Church. These two families lived about a mile apart on land west of Klein's Point, and this made it easy for George Brundell, jnr. Three children of this marriage—Mr. Stan Brundell, Mrs. Jack Warren and Mrs. Harold Cornish—are still living at Stansbury. When the men of the landing parly had carried the woman, children, baby and the provisions ashore, Mr.
Alec Anderson, leader of the party, approached a local resident and enquired about the "blackfellows. From the ensuing conversation it was discovered that the Anderson's had come from Morphett Vale, and the Heppenstall's had joined them at Port Noarlunga.
This proved very fortunate as the Captain and Mate of their ship "Sailor Prince" had imbibed freely from some wine casks and, under the influence, both wished to steer the boat in opposite directions. After some parleying, Mr. Charles Heppenstall, a seafaring man, was able to gain control of the wheel, and it was he who guided them to Stansbury. With many good wishes from the onlookers the party was packed into a neighbor's spring cart and driven to their house.
They were followed by schoolchildren, girls in lace embroidered pinafores and boys in sailor collars, etc. After them came a number of children dressed as ladies. Bill Reynolds had been very helpful in arranging the setup just as photos had shown it.
A downfall of rain causcd the plans to be quickly altered, and most of the children and spectators were placed under cover. Sherriff, representing his great uncle Mr. Foster, Commissioner of Public Works, and a group of Parliamentarians, and cscorted them to the platform. Sherriff the "Commissioner," his energy and interest, and amid the cheers of the crowd asked him to declare the jetty open. In keeping with the original ceremony, "Mr. Foster" expressed admiration for the courage of the Stansbury residents in forsaking the old jetty of and building this new jetty within thirty years.
He promised a prosr perous future, and hoped that the new loading facilities would very soon repay the money and energy put into their construction. Amid the acclamation of the crowd, he declared the jetty open, and Mr. Sherriff accepted control of it on behalf of his Council.
The "Song of Australia" and the "National Anthem" concluded the ceremony. The whole setting, programme and speeches were founded on historical records from the Adelaide Archives. Ross Anderson was waiting for them in a Holden car and, amid the farewells of the crowd, they left for their holiday home.
Thus the progress of Stansbury over the fifty years was completed. Many people had devoted time, energy and talent towards the pageant. Others whose ready co-operation helped to make the day a great success were : Messrs. Gill, R. Hanrahan and H. Bastin, and Mrs. K Anderson. Farrow on the right. Towler Street, Stansbury, South Australia, viewed from the jetty.
The Dalrymple Hotel can be seen with the name of N. Nicholas Robert Clift, publican. Clift was the publican of the Dalrymple Hotel from 17 March to 18 October Centenary celebrations have created quite a hectic week for most folks here and a great number went to Yorketown on the Tuesday afternoon where 1 am sure all were pleased to see the Queen of Wool float win from the other splendidly decorated ones.
The Governor's visit here was an outstanding event of the year for the children and grown-ups, too, many of whom came, along to meet His Majesty's South Australian representative. Little Barbara Holland presented Lady Dugan with a bouquet of delphiniums and maidenhair fern. A guard of honour of senior scholars was formed up just inside the gates and the school band played the National Anthem.
The party moved to the front of the school where the whole school assembled and the Head Teacher then welcomed their Excellencies to the town and the school. The children then saluted the flag and sang the school hymn, after which the Governor thanked Mr. Holland for his kindly welcome and spoke to the children in a very happy strain, and granted them a holiday for the remainder of the day.
He then presented the Educational Departments swimming certificates to 15 successful candidates and said how necessary it was for all to learn to swim, besides giving wonderful exercise it might be valuable in saving life. They then inspected the upper classroom equipped with wireless, and were taken to the lower classes' room where the little ones showed how they perform their morning assembly. This delighted the visitors, as did the girls cookery and boys' and girls' handwork.
The senior girls gave a rhythm display, at the conclusion of which the whole assemblage sang the "Song of Australia" terminating a most interesting morning. A visit to our memorial tree was then made, and both Sir Winston and Lady Dugan were unstinting in their praise of the fine, inexpensive and decorative memorial.
His Excellency requested, and was promised, a photograph of this memorial to place with other views of intense interest in order that they may at some future time be shown to the King. The whole of the functions held here have been most successful and we sincerely hope that this will be the report of the secretary when the whole of the functions are over.
Many members of the golf club set to work on Saturday and almost completed building the club house on the southern parklands. Visiting golfers will find a re-arrangement of holes and tees when they come here during the season about to open. An aeroplane landed near the western parkland on Saturday evening, and on Sunday morning made several flights about the town carrying passengers.
Preliminary arrangements are being made to hold a cricket victory ball on the night of the Coronation, but more of this later. State Library of South Australia - B After staying a short time near Edithburgh to recuperate after my long ramble round the coast, I determined to return to Adelaide via Stansbury, and so availed myself of the opportunity of driving along the cliffs between those two places. I was advised to do this by several persons, all of whom described the road as one of the finest drives in the colonies.
And it is, without exception, quite as pleasant and exhilarating as any I know of. The road lies on the top of the high cliffs all the way, a distance of about fifteen miles, passing through the small villages of Coobowie and Pickering. At the latter place is a small jetty, but it does not seem to be much used. Stansbury is a nice little place, has a beautiful, clean, hard, sandy beach, splendid bathing grounds, and a jetty a thousand feet long. The chief drawback to the place seems to be the want of deep enough water at low tides to allow the steamers to come close in.
On the way to and near Stansbury are some good wheat crops, most of which should turn out not less than from twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre. About a couple of miles north of the township, Mr. F, Wurm, a well-known resident of Unley for many years, has a large area of ground laid out as an orchard and flower and vegetable gardens. The trees are young yet, but they appear to be thriving, and the vines are laden with fruit. Vegetables of all kinds are in profusion, and so also are the flowers.
I returned to town greatly interested in what I had seen of the Peninsula, and much pleased and benefited by the outing I had. In some respects I was disappointed with the scenery, which away from the coast is rather tame. Of the whole peninsula it may be said there is not a hill worth speaking of, nor is there a permanent stream. I do not think it will carry a larger population than at present, and many people arc of opinion that it has seen its best days; that the farms will get into larger holdings by the small blocks becoming gradually but surely absorbed; and that much of the ground now cultivated will revert to pastoral purposes.
When I was in the district westward of Warooka I made it my business to enquire what the people there did in the matter of attending schools and churches, because so far as I could see there were neither schoolhouses nor places of worship of any kind whatever. I was informed that the population was so small and widely-scattered that no place of worship could be erected.
I learned, however, that the district is periodically visited by tbe Rev. Whitton, Anglican clergyman of Edithburgh, who spends a week at a time going about among the farms and wherever practicable, conducting services in the farmhouses.
These labors appear to be highly appreciated by the people, but from the nature of the country travelled through they must necessarily entail a large amount of toil and real hard work on the part of that gentleman.
In the way of day-school accommodation the residents are not so well off. They are too far from Warooka to send their children thither; they are too far from each other for them to unite and agitate to have a school built among themselves; there is no central place in which a school could be erected; and they are too poor to engage governesses. This is a serious state of affairs. Here are scores of children growing up without any regular school training, and in fact entirely destitute of education, except what little their parents can give them, which from the circumstances of the case must be of the most meagre and elementary nature.
How to cope with this difficulty successfully it is all but impossible to say. Doubtless there are other portions of the colony as unfavorably situated as this one, and it may be regarded as inseparable from newly settled districts. This fact does not, however, solve the difficulty. Something should be done, if possible, to remedy this undesirable condition of things, and the educational system of the colony cannot be regarded as complete if it fails to reach large numbers of children.
What seems to be the only feasible plan which can be adopted is to appoint travelling schoolmasters, to be paid fixed salaries wholly by the State. These should have charge of certain districts, each containing say about twenty families.
On fixed days at regular times the teacher should visit certain houses and give instruction to the children. Before leaving the house lessons might be set for the pupils, to be prepared by the time the teacher again visited that place. This appears to me the only way in which children so circumstanced can be taught. There would be difficulties in settling the details of such a scheme, and some trouble would very likely be experienced in getting suitable teachers; but this should not prevent the making of some effort towards meeting this pressing need.
O, for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit an obligation on her part to teach them who are born to serve her and obey; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind with moral and religions truth, Both understood and practised, so that none, However destitute, be left to droop.
By timely culture unsustained, or run Into a wild disorder, or be forced To drudge through a weary life without the help of intellectual implements and tools— A savage horde among the civilised; A servile band among the lordly free. It is, however, the natural outlet for both the Hundreds of Ramsay and Dalrymple, except a small portion of the latter adjacent to Salt Creek. Oyster Bay has been for many years the place of shipment for the Lake Sunday Run. The front allotments fetched high prices.
A long sandspit stretches out from one of the promontories, so that there is good shelter for vessels in almost any weather. A considerable quantity of wheat was shipped there this season, and the settlers hope before next harvest to have a jetty erected. The township is prettily situated on the slope of a hill, commanding a beautiful view of the country on either side, as well as the sea and Mount Lofty.
Already a store and a blacksmith's shop are in full operation and a Post-Office, although there has been hardly more than one harvest reaped, but very few settlers having any crop before this harvest, aud those who had but a small quantity, although a high average.
In a small cove at one corner of the Bay a vessel is being built for the Peninsula trade, to be called I believe the 'Free Selector. It is the second vessel that has been built in the same place by the proprietor, Mr. A very pretty wooded point runs out on the right of the township, and care should be taken by declaring it a forest reserve, or some other means, to preserve the trees here from ruthless destruction.
It is possible Stansbnry may at some future day be a resort of Adelaideans seeking a retired watering-place, which they would here find combined with the boon; of almost invariably cool nights.
If, however, it were only for the sake of local residents, the timber in question should be preserved. Salt, wood, and gypsum are or will be articles of considerable export from Yorke's Peninsula. The first has already been shipped in some quantity. It is obtained from the lagoons, being scraped into heaps off the surface.
In its raw state, however, it is very strong, and some process for refining it would, I should think, add greatly to the value of the product. Gypsum is obtained from the same lagoons.
It is underneath the salt in beds of varying thickness in the form of regular diamondshaped crystals, quite transparent when broken thin, and very pure.
Tocchi and three men have been working for the Yorke's Peninsula Plaster and Cement Company for some months, and have about tons at King's Lagoon washed and ready to send away.
The carriage of sheaoak to Port Adelaide for firewood is an increasing trade, and one which can be carried on to the advantage alike of those engaged in clearing the land and consumers on the other side of the Gulf, whilst it affords a large amount of employment to small coasters, or back freight to the regular trading ketches.
The wood is purchased on the beach from the farmers at from 5s. Many thousands of sheaoak pick-handles have been supplied to the Wallaroo mines, and much of the timber could be split for wheel-spokes but the dearth of labour is a hindrance to anything of that kind, and for the same reaion a great deal is drawn together in heaps and burnt instead of being cut up and carted to the shipping-places.
In riding from Lake Sunday, Station I had an opportunity of getting general view of the country between that and Yorke Valley, the road being for the most part along rising ground from the centre, towards St. Vincent's Gulf, there is a wide belt of mallee scrub extending the whole distance from Moonta to the northern end of Penton Vale.
On each side of this towards the coast is more or less good land available for agricultural and pastoral farms in combination, which is or will be the prevailing system among the settlers of tho Peninsula. The long-talked-of excursion to Oyster Bay in connection with this office took place on Saturday, October The new steamer Adelaide had been chartered to convev the party to Stensbury, and she left the Gleneig Jetty shortly after 7 o'clock in the morning, to the attendant strains of the Concordia Band, and amid the cheers of the passengers and of the friends who were assembled on the end of the pier.
The weather was dull at starting, but brightened up afterwards. The sea also became more lively as the middle of the Gulf was approached, and this fact a very large proportion of the passengers soon recognised to their temporary inconvenience. The steamer arrived in Oyster Bay about 11 o'clock, and dropped anchor about a quarter of a mile from the end of the new jetty.
It being low tide there was only about 7 feet of water at this point, tho jetty though 1, feet long only running into 3 or 4 feet of water at dead low tide.
The jetty is not yet finished, but the steps were ready, and the passengers were soon brought from the steamer in boats and larded there. The residents turned out in good force to welcome tbe visitors, and throughout the day they succeeded m their efforts to promote the enjoyment of their guests.
The cricket match began about 1 o'clock, and finished at 4. Between the innings a luncheon was served at the Oyster Bay Hotel, where the two teams had their wants well attended to. Faulkner, President of the Stansbury Club, occupied the chair, and the usual toasts were honoured. With a degree of punctuality worthy of being followed on such occasions, the passengers were all on board by 5 o'clock, and within one minute after the appointed hour the return journey was begun amid very hearty and reciprocal cheering.
The steamer arrived off Gleneig Jetty soon after 9 o'clock, and the ptfty were all landed in ample time to catch the 10 o'clock train for town. The weather on the homeward voyage was rough.
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