Goranba

History

The name Goranba is an Aboriginal word referring to a fight over ownership of a tree. Myra Provisional School opened in 1911 and was operated as a part-time school (meaning it shared a single teacher) with some of other part-time schools in the district. In 1913, it became a full-time school and was renamed Perthton Provisional School. It was on a site the north-west of the Perthton railway station (approx ). Goranba Provisional School opened February 1925 in a newly constructed hall. In July 1929, it was decided to combine the schools at Perthton and Goranba in single location. In December 1929, the school building at Perthton was relocated to Goranba to establish Goranba State School on a new site. It was located north of the Goranba railway station on the north-east corner of Goranba Lane and Crosbies Road (). In March 1943, the community requested that the Goranba school building be relocated to Warra-Kogan Road near the Myra Meadows property, a site donated by Andrew Watt Adams. The request was approved in October 1943. The relocated school building was opened as Myra State School in 1944 but closed on 2 February 1945. It was a site on the eastern side of Tara Kogan Road () in present-day locality of Tara.

Geography

The Glenmorgan railway line traverses the locality from east (Weranga) to west (Tara) with railway stations (from west to east): * Perthton railway station, now abandoned () * Goranba railway station () * Bungybah railway station, now abandoned (). There are two state forests in Tara. The Kumbarilla State Forest is in the south of the locality (extending into adjoining localities) and Vickery State Forest is in the south-east of the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is grazing on native vegetation with some rural residential housing and crop growing.

Most-observed species

• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  125
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  99
• Weebill

  Smicrornis brevirostris (Gould, 1838) · Aves
  96
• Galah

  Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  92
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

  Cacatua galerita (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  92
• Pied Currawong

  Strepera graculina (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  89
• Yellow-faced Honeyeater

  Caligavis chrysops (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  88
• Striped Honeyeater

  Plectorhyncha lanceolata Gould, 1838 · Aves
  86