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| Coordinates:33°51′0″S138°00′0″E / 33.85000°S 138.00000°E /-33.85000; 138.00000 | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 13 March 1884[2][3] | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 228 (UCL2021)[6] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5560[7] | ||||||||||||
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Bute is a town in the Northern Yorke peninsula ofSouth Australia, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) east ofWallaroo and 24 kilometres west ofSnowtown. It was proclaimed as a town in 1884[3] and named after theIsle of Bute, in theFirth of Clyde,Scotland.[1] It was the original site of theYorke Peninsula Field Days in 1895; they are now held outsidePaskeville.[3]
The cadastralHundred of Wiltunga andHundred of Ninnes were proclaimed in theCounty of Daly in 1874 to enable closer settlement of the area between theBarunga-Hummock Ranges and the coast-side copper-mining communities ofKadina,Wallaroo andMoonta. In 1882 land in the Hundred of Wiltunga was sold to pioneer grain-growing farmers for between £1 and £1/2/6 per acre. TheGovernment Town of Bute was town surveyed near the southern boundary of the Hundred of Wiltunga in September 1883[2] and officially named by GovernorWilliam Robinson on 13 March 1884.[2]
In 1888, the town of Bute and surrounding hundred of Wiltunga was annexed by theDistrict Council of Ninnes, bringing local government administration to the township for the first time. In October 1879 theBrinkworth–Kadina railway line was opened with Bute being at the 18-mile (29 km) siding. The next siding towards Kadina on the railway was originally called "15-mile camp" or "16-mile Siding" and laterMona.[8] While the railway was being constructed, some competition existed between Mona and Bute as to which rail-side settlement would become the prime business centre to serve residents, but by 1886 Bute was clearly dominant, being home to a church and school and having had a hotel license granted.[9]
In addition to Mona, by the turn of the century, the suburbs ofBute East,Bute South andBute West existed adjacent to Bute, outside the limits of the original government town. In 1933 the Ninnes council was renamed to the District Council of Bute given that, by then, the township of Bute had far outgrownNinnes to the south.
From 1895 until about 1973, theYorke Peninsula Field Day event was held at Bute. By 1935 a state-of-the-art aerodrome had been laid down immediately north of the town and become headquarters to the North-Western Aero Club.[9]
From the late 1990s a tourist train traversed the by-then-disused railway line from Wallaroo to Bute, but this closed in 2009. In 1998 the boundaries of contemporary Bute were formalised. Bute East, Bute South, Bute West and Mona were all absorbed along with a huge swathe of surrounding farmland to form the new 238-square-kilometre (92 sq mi) bounded locality of Bute, which occupies approximately the south-eastern two thirds of the Hundred of Wiltunga.
Attractions to the town include the nearby Bute tannery,[3] Bute Hobbies Bromeliad Display Gardens and the Bute Hotel.[10] A free-to-view fauna park on the Snowtown Road is maintained by the ButeLions Club. Visitors can view emus, peacocks, waterfowl, red kangaroos and other wildlife contained within fenced enclosures.[11] The park also featuresbarbecue facilities andpicnic areas.[12] The town is surrounded by agricultural and pastoral land.[citation needed]
Gazetted as 'Allotments at 16 mile siding'-vide Government Gazette 17/12/1885. Government Town declared ceased to exist on 25/1/1979. Now incorporated into the bounded locality of Bute.
[...] half a mile from the town one of the best aerodromes in the State has been put down. It is 100 acres in extent [...] The North-Western Aero Club has its headquarters there, and undertakes the tuition of young airmen who desire to take up aviation. Aeroplane pageants are held periodically [...]
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