Closer Settlement Plan Outlined by State Cabinet
The State Cabinet sub committee on land settlement has finished a preliminary report and sent it to the Premier for Cabinet consideration. It supports closer settlement with potential compulsory subdivision if landowners do not cooperate and plans for funding large scale land and water projects like the Wyangala dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Cabinet
Stevena
E. A. Buttenshaw
Wyangala
Tttle
Buttenshaw
Mines and Forests
Vincent
Hawkins
Abyssinia
Australia
A. B. Perkins
New South Wales
Fullerton Memorial Presbyterian Church
Mr. Perkins
Critique of Interested on closer settlement in Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald letter by Interested critiques Darmody’s closer settlement views, arguing barriers and limited data. Cramaie urges a British Empire settlement plan to shift unemployed youths to farms, advocating rapid closer settlement and national population growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Cramaie
O'Connell Street
Sydney
P.M. Bourke
Bourke
Australia
Land questions loom in Riverina letter to Tribune Courier
In a letter to the Vass Tribune Courier, an interested writer challenges leader A J Christian of the Riverina Country Party to provide land for settlers. The note cites vast holdings, sparse settlement along the Yass to Canberra road and Wee Jasper routes, urging government action to cap land sizes and spur progress.
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Vass
Yasa
Yass-Canberra
Jasper
Good Hope Road
Yass
Land-Seekers urged to register for closer settlement policy
The government signals an active policy of closer settlement and asks genuine land-seekers to register at the nearest Lands office or obtain registration forms by post. No fee is charged and information will be confidential. Registration urged without delay.
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Russia
British Empire Settlers’ Organisation
Great Britain
Dominions
Cabinet
G. F. Allman
Lands Office
We Could And Should Paul Cheyne Urges Immigration Link
Paul Cheyne argues in a letter to the editor that Australia can restore employment through new enterprises and immigration. He cites electric utilities growth, woollens and ware textiles, steel, vacuum cleaners, and tennis racquets as home productions creating jobs, investment, and markets for settlers.
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Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Imber
the Herald
Inter
Herald
World Economic Nationaliss
Clearing Sale on Fernhill
Clearing sale of Capt. N.G. Rae’s Fernhill property at Crowther sold all items to strong demand. About 3000 sheep were sold including wethers and ewes with prices from 13/6 to 18/-, plus merino stock and Fat cattle. Machinery went, a planer fetched £45 10s, three ponies sold for £5 £7 10s and £8 5s.
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N.G. Rae
Fernhill
Crowther
Messrs
Lloyd Martin
Wethers
Thirty Years a Mailman at Morangorell
Tom Maguire served as a mail contractor for fifty years and began New Year’s Day delivering a fast mail bag at Morangorell. In the eighties he carried mail by horse and faced floods and bad roads during many journeys.
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Tom Maguire
Morangorell
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W. J. Darmody
Sutton
Burrowa
Diarmody
Darmody
White
J. B. Cramsie
Major Elliot
Tinterested
Marrar
Gobbagamblin
Myall Creek
Burgess
Culwulla Chambers
Castlereagh &T
Boorowa
Royal Standard
Pam
Young
Albion
Harden
Carrington
Eve
Lallagher
Gallagher’s Modern Pharmacies
Burrowa and
Tooth
Civility and Service
Tooth's Bottledales
Sid Weynand
Paul Cheyne
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