This Day in History: 1900-04-26

It was reported that the WA Government’s Lands Purchase Board had purchased the Norman Estate (Avon Location 1A, of 7,000 acres), north-east of Newcastle.

Sources:
Daily news, 26 April 1900, p.2.
West Australian, 27 April 1900, p.4.
Northam advertiser, 28 April 1900, p.2.
Rica Erickson. Old Toodyay and Newcastle. Toodyay Shire Council, 1974, pp. 328-329, 332.