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Shop, furniture restorer, firearms supplies, upholsterer and a few smaller mixed businesses, including a newsagency. A large new Medical Centre at the Wimmera Highway (Marma St) intersection is a major feature of the town, with many services offered and Chemist's outlet included. There is also a CBA Bank in Marma St with ATM. Marma St also has a 'card-only' self-serve fuel outlet, while Duncan St includes a butcher's shop and a comprehensive delicatessen with hot or cold 'take-away' food. The restored 1928 large Mechanics Hall is adjacent.
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a playground, BBQs, Rotunda and large lawned areas adjacent. Rabl park immediately to the North of Lake Marma is a series of waterways and ponds with attractive treed surrounds. It also incorporates a Skate Park, playground, 1896 Railway's walking bridge, BBQ and large grassed areas. Both Lakes are great fishing and recreational areas, with abundant birdlife and pleasant formed walking tracks surrounding both.
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across the Australian landscape are the most iconic depiction of this style of building ... The durability of this remarkable building is a testament to the bush skills and ingenuity of its builders and represents a rare and impressive example of Australian rural architecture and building technology to solve a difficult and large scale engineering problem.
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Murtoa's main shopping centre is located in McDonald St. and is a largely original c1910 precinct, with timber facades and verandah posts. It features a large Thrifty Link hardware store, IGA supermarket, licensed Post Office, fuel outlet and service station, cafe/coffee shop, Neighbourhood House, Op
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The Warracknabeal-Wimmera Racing Club, in conjunction with the local Murtoa/Marma Racing Club, schedules two race meetings a year at Murtoa, including the Murtoa Cup meeting in October and the Marma Cup on New Year's Day. From 2016, the Marma Cup will no longer be run on New Year's Day as this event
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Murtoa's Lake Marma, situated in the centre of town, has always been a haven for wildlife and one of the most attractive lakes in the Wimmera. It is currently being improved with restored surrounds. The main feature is the impressive 1890s avenues of sugar gum trees around most of the lake. There is
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The Murtoa Stick Shed was heritage listed in 1990, and in October 2008 the Victorian government allocated funds to restore the structure. The Murtoa Stick Shed has become a significant tourist attraction and is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 to 12.30, and from 10 until 2pm Sunday. Allow plenty of
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The Murtoa No.1 Grain Store is an impressive and unusual example of Australian rural architecture; a form of design and construction rooted in the Australian traditions of bush ingenuity and the adaptation of traditional building techniques and materials. The corrugated iron and timber woolsheds
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Golfers play at the 18 hole sand-scrape Golf Course of the Murtoa Golf Club on Murtoa-Lubeck Road, just South of town. There are also excellent bowling greens, new tennis courts, quality sports ground with new clubrooms and netball court. There is an indoor stadium located at the college.
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was cancelled in conjunction with the local club and Racing Victoria. In lieu of this decision, Murtoa will host a mid-week race meeting in July 2016. These two meetings are very popular with all Wimmera residents.
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Murtoa has two schools, Our Lady Help of Christians {OLHC}, a Catholic primary school in Munro Street, and Murtoa College, a P-12 state school in Webb Street. There is also a kindergarten.
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The working section of the present-day Murtoa Grain Receival Centre can hold up to 400,000 tonnes of grain and is the largest inland Receival Centre in Australia.
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Cade, Jack F. (1999), "John Frederick Joseph Cade: family memories on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the use of lithium in mania",
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word meaning "home of the lizard". Murtoa's post office opened on 1 August 1874. Many of Murtoa's pioneer farmers were German immigrants, attracted from
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Murtoa also has some larger local employers, which includes GrainCorp, Schier Cabinet Makers and Solomit Strawboard.
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The town has both Australian Rules football and Netball teams competing in the Wimmera Football League.
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The Lake Marma precinct also includes a quality swimming pool, well shaded both naturally and by shade.
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roof. The impressive cathedral-like structure was last used to hold wheat in 1989–90.
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Murtoa is the site of the largest rustically-built structure in the world, the
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Life Matters Wednesday 31 August 2016: Finding Sanity – John Cade and lithium
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Finding sanity : John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
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Victoria

Murtoa is located in Shire of Yarriambiack
Coordinates
36°36′S 142°29′E / 36.600°S 142.483°E / -36.600; 142.483
2016 census
Postcode(s)
Melbourne
Horsham
Rupanyup
LGA(s)
Shire of Yarriambiack
State electorate(s)
Lowan
Federal division(s)
Mallee
Victoria
Australia
Wimmera Highway
Melbourne
Shire of Yarriambiack
2016 census
Aboriginal
South Australia
Murtoa No. 1 Grain Store
Second World War
tie rods
corrugated iron
Australian National Heritage List
John Cade

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