Why Paiwalla
Paiwalla is Aboriginal for ‘right arm’.
It recalls the powerful right arm with which Ngurunderi hurled his javelin-like weapon at ‘Ponde’.
Ngurunderi , the great ancestral king of the Murray tribes came down the river in pursuit of a giant Murray Cod, Ponde.
When near Monteith he poised his spear and said, ‘now I will kill him’; the fish escaped at great speed, cutting a straight channel in the river as far as Tailem Bend. It was here that Ngurunderi failed for a second time to kill the giant cod.
Extracts from ‘Place Names of South Australia’ by Geoffrey Manning
It recalls the powerful right arm with which Ngurunderi hurled his javelin-like weapon at ‘Ponde’.
Ngurunderi , the great ancestral king of the Murray tribes came down the river in pursuit of a giant Murray Cod, Ponde.
When near Monteith he poised his spear and said, ‘now I will kill him’; the fish escaped at great speed, cutting a straight channel in the river as far as Tailem Bend. It was here that Ngurunderi failed for a second time to kill the giant cod.
Extracts from ‘Place Names of South Australia’ by Geoffrey Manning
