The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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Page 144
... pastoral land . His map is marked with such descriptive phrases as " splendid forest and grassed country " , " well grassed table - land " , " open plains " , " gentle undulating country , grass abundant " . McKinlay , indeed , threw a ...
... pastoral land . His map is marked with such descriptive phrases as " splendid forest and grassed country " , " well grassed table - land " , " open plains " , " gentle undulating country , grass abundant " . McKinlay , indeed , threw a ...
Page 236
... pastoral occupation could be conducted from this base by a handful of surveyors and police . As Queensland wisely refused to administer a territory so vast and so remote from Brisbane , Newcastle finally gave the country west of the ...
... pastoral occupation could be conducted from this base by a handful of surveyors and police . As Queensland wisely refused to administer a territory so vast and so remote from Brisbane , Newcastle finally gave the country west of the ...
Page 315
... pastoral horizon . Governor Weld , with New Zealand experience both in settlement and administration , met the difficulty of the patchy character of the land available for tillage by classifying the areas sur- veyed , and varying the ...
... pastoral horizon . Governor Weld , with New Zealand experience both in settlement and administration , met the difficulty of the patchy character of the land available for tillage by classifying the areas sur- veyed , and varying the ...
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