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March 2017
I've just
edited the article. One thing I did not fix was the population figure, which is given for "Wild Dog Valley" (a name never used locally AFAIK). The Frances district would have less than half of that number; Frances township has much less.
BTW, I made sure that the article no longer claims the State Government maintains Frances Road, because honesty would compel me to qualify that verb with "notionally" or "supposedly".
I did a web search for a source for Frances continuing to be a "major receiving point for grain, with several large silos", but did not find one. There must be some, but I didn't find any.
CWC05:33, 3 March 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Chris Chittleborough:I would have used
EziGrain Operating Hours but that currently says "Site closed for 16/17 harvest receivals" which is unclear whether that applied to the whole season, or simply today/this month. Some others have similar words and some have "Site now closed for 16/17 harvest receivals", others are open by appointment or for specific hours or only some kinds of grain.
Storage Allocation seems to suggest that Frances had nine varieties/grades of barley, canola, faba beans and wheat this year. That doesn't really support "major", but the rest seems OK. --
Scott DavisTalk12:06, 3 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Thanks. I was hoping for a report along the lines of "Frances terminal takes in huge amounts of grain, 3rd highest among Viterra SA terminals", because I know that mainstream media and farming news reports have carried stories like that in the (distant-ish) past. Maybe next season? Cheers,
CWC04:50, 5 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Maybe the Stock Journal or one of the Southeast newspapers carries that sort of reporting at the end of the season? You can cite paper newspapers, they don't have to be online. --
Scott DavisTalk08:04, 5 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Little Desert
I've just created
Little Desert, Victoria as a redirect to
Little Desert National Park, and changed the "Localities around Frances" part of the infobox to link there. (Ideally, we probably should have separate articles, one about the geography & ecology of the LD and another about the facilities of the LDNP, but I don't have the sources or the time or the energy to write that.) BTW, the Little Desert is geographically distinct from the Big Desert (north of the Western Highway). I've never visited the Big Desert, so I don't know how similar it is to the Little Desert in terms of flora and fauna. (I have driven around the SW portion of the Little Desert several times.) Cheers,
CWC04:42, 21 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Thanks for changing the article to list Neuarpurr as the NE, E, and SE article. I think that's the right answer here. Listing the Little Desert as the NE neighbor was a bit iffy; listing Benayeo as the SE neighbor is a big stretch.