WESTRALIAN AGRICULTURE.
Speaking at the Western Australian Farmers’ Conference, which || was opened by the Governor on August 26, the Premier (Mr Moore) said that everything in connection with agriculture was on the in- ' crease. So far as laud settlement was concerned, they had no fewer than 64,500 settlers, and some 7,000 acres had been alienated last year under first-class conditions. Another pleasing feature consisted in the fact that 611,000 acres had been cleared during If the same period. _ The lhnd under crop this year showed an increaso of 46,000 acres, equal to 26 per cent, on that of last year. The State had entered the wheat export' trade, and the-outlook for the future was extremely bright. The system of 4) advances to settlers had proved of the utmost assistance to the man on the • land.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 6 October 1908, Page 4
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135WESTRALIAN AGRICULTURE. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 6 October 1908, Page 4
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