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Havilah (Co. Phillip) 32°37’S. 149°46’E., 17 km E. of Mudgee, on Lawson’s Ck.; gold (disc. 1851), limestone, dolomite; airfield; Angl. C. (Memorial) b. 1905 by John S. Nutt, for Henry White, d. by Harold Robert Hardwick, now seldom used, and graveyard (12 graves 1900-99); cemetery (Rom. Cath., 18 graves 1859+); hailstorm 1878; lime-kilns (Metrop. Lime Co.) 1918, Defunct; PO 1883-84; quarries: G. & C. Hoskins Ltd. 1912, Metrop. Lime & Cement Co., William Wall 1911; RS 1890-1975; school 1882-84 and 1915-45; pop. 85 (1911), 75 (1933), 68 (1947)1 .
1927
The name was decided upon as follows: The surrounding country is gold-bearing, and one day the then owner of the estate, Mr N P Baylym was prospecting in the creekbed when Canon Gunther came on the scene as a dish of dirt with rich gold in it was being washed out. Canon Gunther then said: "Why, Mr. Bayly, you should call this place 'Havilah,' the land where there is gold2 .