The township of Cunderdin is located about 100 miles or 156 kilometres east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway, the district of Cunderdin-Meckering is known as a reliable producer of wheat and sheep. Cunderdin Townsite was approved by Cabinet on 8 May 1906. "Cunderdin" is the native name of a huge rock and soak near the Townsite.
             The land slumbered until the gold discoveries of the late 1880s and early 1890s. The resulting population explosion led to the development of railways, water supplies, roads and telegraph lines as well as to a dramatic expansion of the wheatlands east of the Avon Valley. After 1900 Cunderdin began to boom as a rich producer of wheat and hay.
             In 1940, the serious business of administration which had to continue, the Meckering Roads Board considered a quotation for the fitting of gas producers to all board vehicles and expressed alarm at the increased price of superphosphate. The board agreed to make it plant available for work on the Air Training Station, a project enthusiastically supported by members. Rabbit Inspector Hall, four years in the district, was concerned by a resurgence of rabbits and urged the board to take action.
             The real impact of the war began to be felt in Meckering and Cunderdin during 1940 as men began to join the forces. Early in the year Jim Halbert and Tom Hird junior joined the Air Force and in July, D. C. Macpherson, Roads Board secretary, commenced training at an officers engineering school. N. Pascoe, B. Stokes, J. Ettridge and D. Le Fevre entered the Army and E. Martain, D. Daniels and M. Harris began training at Northam camp. Twoards the end of 1940 Charlie Scarlett joined the Air Force and Noramn Pascoe, Charlie Burgess, Fred Heath and Colin Taggart became members of the famous 2/28 Battalion. Early in September, at the request of King George VI, prayers for the successful outcome of the war were offered in all churches. A military ball in Novem...