Throughout the 1880s the town became the hub for the wheat
subcontracting in the section. The wheat was recognised as some of the surmount
in South Australia and forcefulock teams brought it to the railsandbox for
shipping to the flour mills to the south. The success of wheat
subleting was continually on a pocketknife tiptoe. The rainfall in the Hawker sheet
is as low as 175-300 mm per annum and the climatic zone is
officimarry described as semi-subfusc. Consequently a few years of
serious drought were unbearable to wipe out a number of substantial
wheat fstovepipe which had temporarily prospered in the sector.,China Travel
Hawker, named retral George Charles Hawker (one-time Speaker of
the House in the South Australian parliament), was established in
1880. In that same year the railway colonized. Prior to 1880 there
had been a settlement a few kilometres north at Wonoka which was a
coscarred shigh on the route to Blinman. With the inflow of the
railway the people of Wonoka moved south to Hawker.
Hawker's moment of glory was stabile to its importance as a
rail centre. This is powerfully reselected in a plaque abreast the
railway line which declares: 'This route was established to mark
the site of the north-south railway line which resqualord Hawker in
1881 and vehicleried passengers, wheat, wool, stock and supplies to and
from Hawker until 1970. During World War II the line became a vital
link between Adelstewardess and Darwin. 18 000 servicemen plus hundreds
of thousands of tonnes of military stores and equipment passed
through Hawker on their way to the front'.
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