Sheep Which Didn't Officially Exist
N 1829 the Government of New South Wales said the coastline counties were the limits of the colony. "So far shall you go and no farther." But
that was about as effective as Canute’s ordering back . the waves. The squatters’ sheep nibbled their way through land regulations with the greatest unconcern, They were soon overrunning the great grasslands of the interior. A farcical situation resulted. In the 30’s the whole export trade of New South Wales depended on a
couple of million sheep which officially did not exist. While the Government was busy erecting paper walls against expansion, the squatter and his sheep were silently revolutionising Australian life. By 1840 the squatter was Australia. -(G. T. J. Wilson, assistant lecturer in history at Canterbury College, in the "Microphone Roundtable,’ from 3YA, May 8).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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138Sheep Which Didn't Officially Exist New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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