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Agricultv red (iazeUe of N.S.W. 



[Nov. 2, 1920. 



riulcr the iiiHuenco of present prospeets land is bringing high prices 

 till the Chirenee. As much as £150 per acre is said to have been paid quite 

 lately for first-class cane land near Maclean, and there is not lacking 

 evidence that though there cannot be the development here that may bo 

 anticipated on the other rivers, the shrinkag'e in area that has resulted from 

 the last two planting seasons being excessively dry, is likely to be recovered 

 ill tiu- ])r('~('iiT scnsoii shmilil it be at nil fnvnuralile. 



Sugar Cane at Palmer's Channel, Clarence River. 



A gOOfi crop of New Guinea No. \('<. 



The Richmond River Districts. 



On the Kichmond the area devoted to sugar cane is much larger than on 

 either of the other rivers. Considerable areas from Woodburn upwards 

 have had to be abandoned owing to frost, but below that town there is a 

 goodly area that is either frost-free or nearly so whereon sugar cane can be 

 grown with profit, and that, in fact, is already attracting attention on this 

 account. The configuration of the country favours the Richmond for cane- 

 growing in a (piite peculiar way. The tendency of the North Coast rivers 

 to take a northerly course for some miles before falling into the ocean is 

 most emphatic in the case of the Richmond. For perhaps 15 miles it 

 runs parallel with tlie coast, only a narrow neck of land separating it from 

 the sea. Thus, witli the mountains a distant protection on the west, tlw' 



