Price (Port Price)
Price is a town and locality on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is within the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area and is 131 km north west of the centre of state capital, Adelaide.
At the, Price and the surrounding district had a population of 256.
The township, which was proclaimed on 3 August 1882, is near the northern boundary of the Hundred of Cunningham.
It was named by Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877–83, after his daughter in law, Florence Annie Price, who married John Jervois, his eldest son. She was a daughter of Henry Strong Price, a pioneer pastoralist of the Flinders Ranges.
Boundaries for the locality were created on 27 May 1999 for the "long established name."
The principal local industries are grain farming and salt production. In the case of the latter, approximately 170,000 tonnes of sea salt is harvested from 1000 ha of coastal salt evaporation ponds each year. Cheetham Salt owns the operations.
Tourism facilities are limited to the Wheatsheaf Hotel, established 1886, and a caravan park.
At the, Price and the surrounding district had a population of 256.
The township, which was proclaimed on 3 August 1882, is near the northern boundary of the Hundred of Cunningham.
It was named by Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877–83, after his daughter in law, Florence Annie Price, who married John Jervois, his eldest son. She was a daughter of Henry Strong Price, a pioneer pastoralist of the Flinders Ranges.
Boundaries for the locality were created on 27 May 1999 for the "long established name."
The principal local industries are grain farming and salt production. In the case of the latter, approximately 170,000 tonnes of sea salt is harvested from 1000 ha of coastal salt evaporation ponds each year. Cheetham Salt owns the operations.
Tourism facilities are limited to the Wheatsheaf Hotel, established 1886, and a caravan park.
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AUD | Australian dollar | $ | 2 |
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