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Nowie, Victoria

locality in Victoria, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ7066701 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nowie is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 26 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.

A Post Office opened as Hill's around 1914, was renamed Nowie South in 1915 and closed in 1918. A Nowie North Post Office opened on 1 July 1923 and closed in 1958.

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The public source identifies “Nowie, Victoria” as locality in Victoria, Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nowie, Victoria and locality.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1915, 1918, 1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nowie, Victoria and locality providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7066701. Authority coordinates are -35.333, 143.267. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1915, 1918 and 1923.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nowie, Victoria” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.