July-August 2016 Oceania Edition

Business View Australia - July - August 2016 37 “The whole idea was to try and bring sports together, to have a single facility rather than trying to have two separate lots of infrastructure. It has been kind of a work- in - prog res s because you are trying to get all those sports clubs to try and talk to one another whereas they haven’t had to worry about that kind of thing in the past. And from a revenue and economic perspective of the development of the sports ground, having everything in one area means that all money is being driven through one channel. We also have only one infrastructure to maintain instead of having separate areas”, says Peter Naylor, the CEO of the Cunderdin Shire Council. History and Tourism On the 14 th of October 1968 Meckering experienced a 40 second earthquake. WA’s largest earthquake registering 6.9 on the Richter Scale, the quake’s epicentre was almost directly below Meckering and caused