The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 261
... AGRICULTURE 261 exported from Victoria weighed not quite eight tons.1 This meant a treble saving for the squatter . In pre - gold days , his bales were " dumped " or compressed into a smaller compass at the port of embarkation in order ...
... AGRICULTURE 261 exported from Victoria weighed not quite eight tons.1 This meant a treble saving for the squatter . In pre - gold days , his bales were " dumped " or compressed into a smaller compass at the port of embarkation in order ...
Page 302
... agriculture , and in paving the way to industrial experiments and standards . In the ' sixties , the rapid extension of stock - raising and agriculture to meet the demand of the goldfields , and the exodus of disappointed South ...
... agriculture , and in paving the way to industrial experiments and standards . In the ' sixties , the rapid extension of stock - raising and agriculture to meet the demand of the goldfields , and the exodus of disappointed South ...
Page 307
... agriculture by the new - comers resulted . Instead of settle- ment on the coast , came wide alienations on the Darling Downs , the one possible transmontane region for agriculture . The trend of events was obscured during the middle ...
... agriculture by the new - comers resulted . Instead of settle- ment on the coast , came wide alienations on the Darling Downs , the one possible transmontane region for agriculture . The trend of events was obscured during the middle ...
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