# Vervale

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**Vervale** is a bounded rural locality in [Victoria](/source/Victoria_(Australia)), [Australia](/source/Australia), 71 kilometres (44 mi) south-east of [Melbourne's](/source/Melbourne) [central business district](/source/Melbourne_central_business_district), located within the [Shire of Cardinia](/source/Shire_of_Cardinia) [local government area](/source/Local_government_areas_of_Victoria). Vervale recorded a population of 44 at the [2021 census](/source/2021_Australian_census).[1]

## History

The Post Office opened as Kirwan's in 1909, was renamed Vervale in 1917 and closed in 1967.[2] The Post Office and General Store was taken over by James and Edith McMannis in 1916.[3] It closed in 1967 after the death of Mrs. McMannis, who died on 4 June 1967, Mr. McMannis having predeceased her on 9 April 1959.[4]

Vervale was one of the first places in Victoria where asparagus was grown commercially.[5] Mr. Thomas Roxburgh first grew asparagus on his Vervale farm in 1912.[6]

The school at Vervale, located on the corner of Thirteen Mile Road and Main Drain Road, opened in 1894 as Koo-Wee-Rup North No. 3201, it changed its name to Bunyip South in 1899 and changed its name again in 1905 to Iona State School.[7] The school closed in December 1993.[8]

## Demographics

The joint population of Vervale and [Iona](/source/Iona,_Victoria) in the 2011 census was 363; 196 males and 167 females.[9]

## See also

- [Shire of Pakenham](/source/Shire_of_Pakenham) – Vervale was previously within this former local government area.

## References

1. Phoenix Options History, ["Post Office List"](http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Vervale*), retrieved 11 April 2021

1. "Iona Ward". *Shire of Berwick Rate Books*. 1916.

1. ["Kayemac's Cemetery Index: Bunyip Cemetery"](http://www.ozgenonline.com/~kayemac/bunyip.htm)

1. ["Asparagus Culture. – The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957) – 8 May 1912"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11673611). *Trove*. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

1. ["Estate of Mr Thomas Roxburgh – To the editor of the Argus. – The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957) – 9 Nov 1934"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10992409). *Trove*. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

1. Blake, L.J (1973). *Vision and Realisation: a centenary history of State Education in Victoria*. Victoria – Education Department.

1. Nest, Denise (1994). *On the edge of the Swamp: a history of the Iona Primary School, No. 3201, 1894 – 1994*. Iona Primary School Back-to Committee. ISBN 0646169173.

1. ["Australian Burean of Statistics – Census Data"](http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/GL_VIC2632?opendocument&navpos=220)

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