LAND SETTLEMENT AND SHEEP IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13741, 24 May 1910, Page 4

LAND SETTLEMENT AND SHEEP IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

In .New South Wales the cutting up 01 large estates has naturally had tho same effect upon -heep-breeuing as in Aew Zealand. The large citation Hocks nave given place to a much greater ■number of small ones. Since IS>o_ ten estates had been resumed by the Government, covering 42_,._0 acres and bubdivitied into 900 separate farms. In addition, eight-estates were being dealt v.-ith, aggregating 8,0b8,8.b" acres, representing 1113 holdings. The' Crown • lands dealt with during this period , covered an area of 10.7_3.742 acres, exclusive of unclassified Crown lauds available for occupation. Private subdivisions dealt with during this period hA «tate_, representing J.,4„u,y_, « C res and 1923 irtdividuaJ Wales (the Hon. C. G. Wade), in giving this information recently said tint m regard to the reduction'in "the ?Qno old -'.V ( - S .nlS fo , und that, comparing 1903 with 190/. the increase in the ?,T_° r V-TY-" hoidin ~ s I,ad •**" «« follows:—Holdings of from 1 to 30 fl.-res had increased by 4571 or 19' fr-i^ft^ffi 10 total " ho >dinss; farm; lrom .ii to 400 acres increased by IQ«*.* or 0.4 per cent, of the total; whlh* holdings of from -100 to lOCO acre? . _d ! increased by 14!>9, 0! - 14 . 9 lA ,™i Generally speaking .h EI -_ I,U bcr-n !.'-' V»t7X\H ° VP | ry ? lass , ° f s:m< ' ! ' l J'oldin-. j but taking rhe total number of are™ larger than 7500 acres, there had ht_ n I a falling off. In 1903 am,7u > t' 7.T00 I acres aggregated 73.1(14 l,o!di »_.-■? of a tot;il area of 22,710 3_-> n.- ■ Zul ■ 1903 there,, description, tpt«Hin S ?t5,417.75!7 a4S In l«o*'-;ngs or ..-(JO <nid upwards tim won- ail „, 1003. totalling "4 797 'nq acres: while '..ISOS the number ___d been .reduced, the holdings 94,992 088 acres It wa,%crT£ffitcrv to know, however, that not-vith-stinding the large decrees-, in _'«• b-*jding>, there had not !;•*.-•: :• ponding decrease in the fl'*-*!:* All s---e.s bad. from 3SOO i-> W-*. 11.240. In ISOo the total number of _oc__ of 10.000 and over was 27, carry-

ing 3,527.272 sheep. The latest figures for 1907 showed that the number of flocks of 10,000 and over had been reduced to seven, with a total of 935.5G9 sheep In the smaller flocks the figure.-, were as follows: —Amongst those of 500 antl under there were in IS9G a total of. 6593, carrying 1,356,792 sheep; while in 1903 the number had been increased to 13,002 flocks, carrying 2,122.194 sheep, which was a very gratifying state of thins*:*. In 1900 there were 2210 flocks of 500 up to 1000. and they carried 2,122.000 sheep: and this number had been increased in 190S to 3639 flocks, covering 2.721.433 sheep. The largest increase toe- I .* place between 1903 and 1907. when flocks between 2000 and 5000 had increased by 1101. and sheen had increased to 3.239.G09. Between the years 1890 and 1903 the flocks only increased by 3708, whereas in the five years from 1903 to 1008 they had increased by (15-32. The nresent New South Wales Government hnvH a.r.'parentlv a -rood record in connection with its land settlement policy.