LAND RESUMPTION IN N.S.W.
Some of the results of ton years of compulsory resumption for closer settlement in New South Wales is conveyed in the following figures;— 295 estates of an area of two million acres were purchased at a cost of six and a half These lands provided 2,707 farms, now in occupation; 1,079 available, 400 of which are reserved for returned soldiers. The first three estates acquired cost £2 18s 9d per acre, as against £4 18s 9d per acre, the latest rate of acquirement. The average price per farm today was £2,416, as against £1,319 in 1907; the average area is to-day 489,. as against 442 acres in 1907.
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Taihape Daily Times, 19 March 1919, Page 4
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112LAND RESUMPTION IN N.S.W. Taihape Daily Times, 19 March 1919, Page 4
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