Ben COPLEY

Born 10 August 1904 in Bayswater, Western Australia ^[16]
Son of Benjamin COPLEY and Rachel Ellen BURNSIDE ^[15]
Manager of Mungaterra Station in Mingenew ^[50]
Member of the Mingenew Race Club ^{[101: page 129]}
He had the telephone connected to his farmhouse by 1926 - was telephone number Mingenew-3 ^[60]
Member of the Mingenew Polo Club in 1931 ^{[4: 28-Mar-1931]}
Member of the Mingenew Recreation Advisory Committee in 1934 ^{[101: page 129]}
Member of the Mingenew Tennis Club in 1935-36 ^{[5: 6-Dec-1935]}


From The Western Mail newspaper, Thursday 26 December 1929:
Country Towns and Districts - Three Springs and Mingenew - Cereal and Pastoral Wealth - People and Properties
"An old Guildford Grammarian, Mr Ben Copley, son of Mr B. Copley (does not believe in unnecessary initials) is a stockman to his fingertips. On leaving school he went 'jackarooing' on Atkins Brothers' Murgoo Station, in the Murchison district, and has now been established at Mungaterra for seven years. Mungaterra is run in conjunction with the Springs Pastoral Co's Murchison and Kimberley properties, with which Mr Copley's father is prominently connected. Its area is 6,500 acres, and it is undulating grass country, with a plentiful supply of sago bush, and will carry a sheep to the acre, or the equivalent. The Shorthorn beef stud, for which the bull, Royal Sydney, was purchased at the last Sydney Easter sales, supplies the bulls for the northern stations. The principal activity is the fattening of cattle brought down from the Murchison, and about 400 head are put into market condition annually. Another important field is the breeding of fat lambs from culled merino ewes, also from the Murchison. Each year 2,000 such ewes are put on and mated with Dorset Horn-Shropshire rams. Something like 1,300 lambs are marketed and the ewes are then fattened and sold. On Mungaterra, Mr Copley runs Murky Night, a thoroughbred stallion imported from the Old Country by Mr A. E. Cockram, and also 15 thoroughbred mares."

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