CLOSER SETTLEMENT
SUBDIVISION K AUSTRALIA GOVERNMENT PROGRESS. Prens Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and K.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, September 14. (Received September 14, at 11.40 a.in.) In a comprehensive statement regarding closer settlement, the Producers’ Association’s Central Council claims that land owners are not holding up closer settlement, and that no organisation of primary producers opposes it. It is considered that the typo of closer settlement most useful to the country is that which comes about by natural progress. To have a reasonable chance of success on land migrants must have capital and Australian experience. The subdivision of estates has been in progress for many years. In 1882 there were sixty-threo Hocks of sheep of 100.000 or over, and 151 flocks of between 50,000 and 100,000. In 1923 the latest official figures available' 4>i«' vc d not one flock of over 100,000 and only twenty-six between 50,000 and 100,000. During the same period flocks from 10.000 to 50,000 decreased from 891 to 446. Flocks from 1,000 to 10,000 increased from 4,455 to 6,912, and flocks of 100 to 1,000 from 8,317 to 13,918. Up to Juno 30, 1924, the Government had acquired 1,841 estates for closer settlement, tho aggregate area boiiyj 3,798,000 acres, at a cost of £13,719,000. These were divided u>io 7,707 farms.
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Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 6
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213CLOSER SETTLEMENT Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 6
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