This Day in History: 1899-04-03

The Culham Agricultural Hall was opened on Easter Monday, by Timothy Francis Quinlan, MLA. The brick hall, built by Edmund Glover Hasson on land donated by Samuel Pole Phillips, was located one mile beyond the Culham homestead. 600 people attended the opening.

Sources:
West Australian, 5 April 1899, p.6; 19 April 1899, p.3.
Western mail, 21 April 1899, p.46.
Northam advertiser, 8 April 1899, p. [2].
Rica Erickson. Old Toodyay and Newcastle. Toodyay Shire Council, 1974, p.329 (has May).