Hay Shire Council
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Hay Shire New South Wales |
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Population: • Density: |
3,822 0.34/km² |
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Area: | 11,348 km² | ||||||||||||
Mayor: | Michael Rutledge | ||||||||||||
Council Seat: | Hay (134 Lachlan Street, Hay) | ||||||||||||
Region: | Riverina | ||||||||||||
State District: | Murray-Darling | ||||||||||||
Federal Division: | Farrer | ||||||||||||
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Hay Shire is a local government area in the Riverina area of western New South Wales, Australia. It is on the Sturt, Mid-western and Cobb Highways.
It includes the towns of Hay, Booligal and Maude. Banjo Paterson (1864–1941) wrote a poem called Hay and Hell and Booligal [1] about the district.
[edit] References
- ^ Hay and Hell and Booligal. whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.