Who was Albert Priest?
February 19, 2010
Who was Albert Priest? We cross the Albert Priest Channel 26km south of Nyngan. Not such a luminary that a town or desert is named after him. No mountains either of course, this part of the country being billiard table flat. Perhaps it is appropriate that landmarks out here are subsurface ones such as a channel, for the only high points are eucalypts and casuarinas.
[...] town clerk (not sure which town) in the 1920s or so who thought it would be good for all in that part of the [...]