Anyarro Provisional School 1928-1929 is a brown sign in a paddock located at a place that appears to be nowhere in particular.
Like the brown signs for Langley Flat School
and Langley Flat Provisional School
, Anyarro Provisional School makes the historical location for a school that has little left to mark its existence.

There are a few stumps that look like they may have been part of the foundation at some point. These are weathered and will eventually disappear leaving nothing but the brown sign.
Provisional schools started in the 1960s, defined as ‘..temporary provision is made for the primary instruction of children and not being a State school’. Provisional schools were established where the average attendance was too small for a state school and the building could be provided at the expense of the locals.
A provisional teacher was often not classified as a teacher and received a lower salary. They were often someone with barely adequate education themselves or an educated woman forced to provide for herself.
An article in The Daily Mail newspaper from 20th September 1926
mentions of Anyarro Provisional School. It reads;
A provisional school has been approved for Anyarro on condition that the building and two closets be erected without cost to the department. When advice has been received from the committee that the building is nearing completion the department will supply the furniture and other requisites, also provide the teacher. The matter of iron for the roof, timber for floor, and a tank has been referred to the Works Department for favourable consideration.
Where Anyarro Provisional School is there are two roads running in parallel with a mound in the middle. The mound is where the railway used to run through that heads to Monto.
The article above continues to mention of the railway laid to within about six miles of Mulgeldie (the spelling was different changing to Mulgildie in 1945), which would have been about 4 miles passed Anyarro Siding. There isn’t much to look at anymore and the Anyarro Siding building has been moved to a property on the outskirts of Monto.
We found out about the railway after we had been here, only finding the brown sign after missing a turn to head back to the Burnett Hwy after visiting the Bunyip Hole
. You may be able to find some artefacts still laying around if you have a look around. We didn’t notice anything but we weren’t looking for any either.
