STOCK IN NEW SOUTH WALES
The last repot of the chief inspector of stock m Now South Wales furnishes some facts and figures strikingly illustrative of the expansion of pastopal enterprise m that Colony. The number of miles of fencing is estimated at 920,000, which, at an average cost of £51 per mile, represents, an expenditure of £46,920,000. There are 9475 dams representing, at an average cost lof £101, £956,975 ; there are 15,853 tanks, which, at an average of £180 ss, have cost £2,858,404 105 ; and there are 2195 wells, which, at an average of £307 10,-s have cost £674,962 10s — being a total outlay of £4,460,342 for water supply and storage. It must strike the mew Zealand squatter that m regard to the last jnonjioned item he is much better off than his Australian
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 16, 17 December 1883, Page 2
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135STOCK IN NEW SOUTH WALES Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 16, 17 December 1883, Page 2
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