farm sold to buy island
PA Timaru A South Canterbury farmer, Mr C. M. Stevens, has bought an island close to the boom tourist resort of , Surfers Paradise in Queensland. He has sold his fine bushland farm, Houhere Park, at Peel Forest, near Geraldine, to develop the 625 ha Woomoopah Island as a tourist attraction—initially a $500,000 project which will need further “considerable” sums of money to develop it. He and a Southport (Surfers Paradise) veterinarian, Dr B. Perrers, plan a deer fe.rm and zoo on the freehold island property
which is subdivided into 20ha blocks. Just opposite is a $lO million hotel complex under construction. Mr Stevens is enthusiastic about the potential of his island. It is strategically placed between Jacobs Well, a launching point for Brisbane boat-owners, and Surfers Paradise itself. He intends to import New Zealand deer, subject to Federal and State Government approval, to supplement stock on the island. He said that the project had been approved in principle by the main territorial local authority in the area, the Albert Shire Council.
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