04/06/2025
A brief history of ‘KIANGA’ Station.
The ‘KIANGA’ station story started with its original owners, Archie and Mary McNabe. After a chaotic beginning Mary and Archie finally settled on their run ‘KYANGA’ in 1857. In 1860 Archie went on an errand to purchase two hundred Shorthorn heifers for ‘Kyanga’, it was on this journey that Archie took ill and sadly passed. Throughout the years Mary battled floods, droughts, dingo invasion and bush fires, all of which greatly affected her income and caused massive disruption to station life. Mary struggled over the years to keep the station afloat, then in 1877 a fellow Scot, John Sutherland joined Mary to manage ‘Kianga’. Mary stayed on at ‘Kianga’ until her passing on the 10th of May 1894 at 73 years of age. ‘Kianga’ station went on to be home to many families, with the station including the main homestead, a butchery, a small school house, the farm managers cottage, men’s quarters, shearer’s quarters, the cook house and of course the shearing shed.
