Lake Centenary
Swimming Spots · Temora
Lake Centenary is four kilometres north of Temora and is used for power boating, water skiing, sailing, canoeing, swimming and fishing.
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New South Wales · 2666
New in Temora? Start here
Everything a new arrival actually asks in the first month, answered from the 6 businesses, clubs and places we list here. No sponsored entries, nothing paid for.
First, the thing people get wrong
Temora has an aviation museum with a flying collection of warbirds and an aerodrome that stages regular showcase days. The town grew on an 1880s gold rush and now runs on wheat, canola and sheep. Hoskins Street is the main strip and the rail line still moves grain out of the local silos.
Temora is in New South Wales, postcode 2666, and far enough from the Murray that the border rules rarely come up. If you do hire somebody from the Victorian side, the licence check opens the right register.
The shape of the place
Temora is the town the surrounding district drives into, not the other way round. These are the facts that decide who you ring and where you go, rather than the ones a tourism page leads with.
| State and postcode | New South Wales, 2666 |
|---|---|
| Local council | Not recorded yet |
| Population | about 4,400 |
| Businesses based here | 6 across 6 categories |
| Businesses that travel in | 0 |
| Nearest larger centre | None within an hour. Temora is where the district comes. |
NSWstate
2666postcode
6businesses based here
0that travel in
What is actually based in Temora
Not businesses that cover Temora from somewhere else — these have an address here. For a small town this is the part worth knowing, because it is the difference between a trade you can walk to and one you wait a week for.
Where to eat and drink
Places with an address in Temora rather than ones that deliver to it. Work through them rather than eating at the same place for a year.
Eat
- Bakeries 1
Pubs and clubs
What there is to do
Including the free ones, which is what you want in the first month before you know whether you are staying.
Where locals actually post what is on
Half of what happens in Temora never reaches a website. It goes on a council page or a community group and nowhere else. These 1 cover Temora , and every URL was read off the organisation's own site rather than guessed from its name.
Local news
The Daily Advertiser
The Wagga paper, covering the city and the wider Riverina. Council, court, sport and river levels.
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Know a community group for Temora that belongs here? Tell us and we will check it and add it. We do not add a page without opening it first.
When something breaks
No trade is based in Temora itself, which is normal for somewhere this size. 0 cover it from nearby, and they are on the town page with the distance they travel.
The 0 businesses that cover Temora
Before you pay a deposit. Ask which licence they are working under
for your job and check it. It takes a minute on the
licence check, and on this border the
licence that counts is the one for the state the work is in, not the state the
business is registered in.
Moving to Temora
What state is Temora in?
Temora is in New South Wales, postcode 2666. That decides which trade licences apply to work done here, which public holiday calendar sets penalty rates, and which regulator handles a complaint. On this border those are three separate things worth knowing.
How do I meet people in Temora?
Clubs are the fastest way into a regional town. We do not have the Temora club listings up yet, so the local council and the neighbourhood centre are the places to ask.
What is there to do in Temora?
We list 2 things to do in and around Temora, across museums, swimming spots and more. 1 of them are free.
Who do I call when something breaks?
Trade listings for Temora are still being built.
Is this page a paid guide?
No. Nothing on it is sponsored, nobody paid to appear, and ordering comes from how complete a listing is rather than from money. It is assembled from the same data as the rest of the site.
Somewhere to stay while you look
- Motels(1)
Worth the drive
- Junee47km
- Coolamon52km
- Wagga Wagga76km
- Gumly Gumly77km
- Ashmont77km
- Turvey Park77km