BIG STATION PURCHASE
BY NEW ZEALANDER IN QUEENSLAND. Special to tho “Times.” CHRISTCHURCH, October 22. Private advices have been received from Queensland of the purchase of a large cattle property near the Flinders river by a New Zealander, Mr G. D. Greenwood, the well-known sportsman and North Canterbury runholder, who has recently acquired the Saxby Downs station, embracing an area of some 800,000 acres, and carrying some 30,000 cattle. This recent purchase, added to Mr Greenwood’s sheep property of Tocal, in the same State, brings up his holding to nearly a million acres. Among the 100,000 sheep shorn recently at Tocal were some thousands of half-bred Corriedales, which cut the record average of over eleven pounds of wool per head. This proves the suitability of the Corriedale sheep bred in New Zealand for the climatic conditions of the great Commonwealth State of Queensland.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8559, 23 October 1913, Page 7
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