Arawata is a little hamlet in South Gippsland, Victoria.   It has no pub; the nearest is 6 miles away in Korumburra. Although it's where my father's side of the family come from and I spent a lot of my childhood there, I never knew "The village pump" is Arawata's 'theme song' until they started having reunions and 'back to's in the 70s; I must have been too preoccupied with learning the dances (Lancers, First Set etc) and missed it.

Cheers, Rowan

PS Mudcat has started putting red underlining (like Word) under 'unusual words'; even "Mudcat" gets the treatment! It didn't do it to me yesterday.