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10 unusual facts about Waratah


1913 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand

The team played in the light-blue jersey of New South Wales with a Waratah emblem and the word Australia on the chest.

Cyril Burke

Born in Waratah near Newcastle, New South Wales he had a long association with the Newcastle Waratahs club as both a player and coach.

John Scholey

He eventually bought up much of the Newcastle district known as North Waratah, subdividing it as the city environs grew, and renaming it Mayfield after Ada May, one of his daughters.

Margo Lanagan

Margo Lanagan (born 1960) in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.

Patrick Giles-Jones

Patrick Giles-Jones (born 9 December 1982 in Waratah, New South Wales) is an Australian born Japanese cricketer.

Waratah

In 2009, the Premier of New South Wales, Nathan Rees, commissioned a state logo based on the floral emblem.

Telopea speciosissima the floral emblem of the state of New South Wales and several organisations in the state, including the New South Wales Waratahs rugby team and Grace Bros. (now Myer).

The name waratah comes from the Eora Aboriginal people, the original inhabitants of the Sydney area.

The botanical journal Telopea is named after the genus, as is the western Sydney suburb of Telopea, New South Wales.

Waratah, New South Wales

The suburb contains a major acute hospital, the Calvary Mater (formerly the "Mater Misericordiae"), owned by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy, who, until recently occupied all the most senior nursing positions.


Alpha, Queensland

In a March 20, 2012 press conference Waratah coal CEO Clive Palmer accused environmental groups and the films producers of being funded by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Dandenong High School

In 1920 there were six houses – Bluegum, Clematis, Orchid, Wattle, Boronia and Waratah though this was soon reduced to four with the loss of Boronia and Waratah.

Lambton, New South Wales

The Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who represented Lambton was Arthur Hill Griffith, Member for Waratah.

Maronites

El-Fadle never returned to Lebanon; he was a passenger on board the ship SS Waratah, which disappeared in July 1909 en route from Durban to Cape Town.

Newcastle and Hunter Rugby Union

Early clubs in the competition included Advance (1880); West Maitland (1885); Oriental (1885); Union (1885); Ferndale (1885); Waratah (1885); Raymond Terrace (1886); Carlton (1887); Centennial (1887); Lambton (1888); Wickham Albion (1888) and Greta (1890).

Rodrigo Palomino

Palomino played in Australia for Granville Waratah, Belmore Hercules and in Belgium for KSV Waregem, RC Tournai, Wawel Kraków in Poland and Royal Racing Club Touraisien and Francs Borains in Belgium again.

Teralba, New South Wales

The town first came into being with the construction of the Homebush to Waratah Railway in the early 1880s.

Tom Lawton, Snr

With no Queensland Rugby Union competition in place at that time the New South Wales Waratahs were the top Australian representative rugby union side of the period and a number of Waratah matches of the 1920s played against full international opponents were in 1986 decreed by the Australian Rugby Union as Test matches.

Waratah Football Club

Waratah players who have played in the AFL include Dean Rioli (Essendon) and Tom Logan (Brisbane Lions).

Waratah Tug and Salvage Company

The Waratah Tug and Salvage Company was a tug and salvage company formed in 1931 by the Adelaide Steamship Company.