Kingaroy

Kingaroy is an agrarian town and territory in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It is around 210 kilometers or around 2½ hours drive north-west of the state capital Brisbane. The town is arranged on the intersection of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways. At the 2016 registration, Kingaroy had a populace of 10,020 with a middle age of 37. It is known as the "Shelled nut Capital of Australia" since Australia's biggest nut preparing plant is situated in the town and nut storehouses overwhelm the skyline. Kingaroy is likewise outstanding as the main residence of previous Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Country settlement of the territory goes back to 1843 when one of the principal determinations was made at Burrandowan west of Kingaroy by squatter and adventurer Henry Stuart Russell. Indeed, even through Russell was supposedly the principal European to understand the capability of the South Burnett, it was Simon Scott of Taromeo now Blackbutt and the Haly siblings of Taabinga who conveyed the main rushes of sheep to the territory in the late 1850s. In 1878 the region where Kingaroy presently stands was settled by the Markwell siblings. At the point when the principal resumptions were produced using the gigantic Taabinga holding, the siblings chose two connecting regions and in 1883 these leases were changed over to freehold and ended up known as the 'Kingaroy Paddock'.