NORTHERN TERRITORY
ALLEGED FAILURE OF A
SETTLEMENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—CopTrijht.)
MELBOURNE, 28th June.
Mr. Boys, late manager of the Daly. River Demonstration Farm, in the Northern Territory, has returned to Victoria. He states that he resigned the managership on account of the attitude of the Administrator, Dr. Gilruth,- and of—in his opinion—the utter hopelessness of the settlement ever being in the least degree a success. He declares that most of the settlers were induced to go there by the roseate prospects which had been conjured up by the Administrator, and that they have already abandoned their holdings, leaving their , stock, implements, and houses, to avoid complete I ruin. Recently, said Mr. Boys, Dr. Gilruth had reported that things were going well at Batchelor Farm, whereas the manager had reported that things were very bad.
Mr. Boys considers that the Daly River will never be a successful dairying settlement, and that therefore it is very unfair to induce settlers to go there.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 153, 29 June 1916, Page 8
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161NORTHERN TERRITORY Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 153, 29 June 1916, Page 8
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