FARM LANDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



situated on the Murrumbidgee River. Improving land for grazing costs 

 from -Js. to ' s s. per acre, subsequent picking up and burning off 10s. to £2 

 per acre. Clearing green timber for cultivation costs £•"> t> £10 per acre 

 according to density. The timbers generally are very hard but burn readily 

 when killed. The class of fencing now adopted is six or seven wires, costing 

 from £.")0 to £60, and wire netting costing from £!)() to £150 per mile. 



South Coast. — Undulating and hilly, rising to mountainous approaching 

 the tableland. The formation is mostly granite and slate, with basalt and 

 diorite patches. The soils vary from light loam to chocolate and clayey. The 

 climate is even and moderate. Rainfall averages about 35 inches per 

 annum. The South Coast is served by the ports of Twofold Bay (Eden), 

 Merimbula, Tathra, Bermagui, Moruya, and Batemau's Bay, and is well 

 intersected by good roads with regular motor services — Nowra to Eden, 

 Cooma to Bega, and Braid wood to Moruya. 



The principal industries are dairying, mixed farming, grazing, pig-raising, 

 timber-getting, and fishing. The South Coast is noted for its dairy pastures, 

 while maize, lucerne, hay, and fodder crops do well Butter and cheese 

 factories are variously established at the principal dairying centres, while 

 cheese and bacon factories are operating at Kameruka, Bega, Bodalla, 

 Narooma, Moruya, <fec. 



The timbers are mostly spotted, grey, and red gum, box, black-but 1- , apple, 

 oak, mahogany, tea-tree, and wattle. Wattle culture for tan bark is carried 

 on in different parts of the district. The district is well watered by rivers 

 and permanent creeks. There are considerable areas of interior and unde- 

 veloped country behind the settled districts. 



Grafton Land Board District. 



The principal towns of this district are Woogoolga, Grafton, Copmanhurst, Ulmarra, 

 Maclean, Yainba, Kyogle, Casino, Coraki, Woodburn, Ballina, Lismore, Alston- 

 \ die, Bangalow, Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Murwillumbah, and Tweed Heads. 



The district embraces the north-east corner of the State from Woolgoolga 

 to Tweed Heads, about 135 miles long and averaging 65 miles wide. Area 

 about 5,500,000 acres. Includes the counties of Rous, Richmond, Clarence, 

 Drake, and parts of Buller, Gresham, and Fitzroy. 



The Clarence River district includes considerable areas of good alluvial 

 soil along the river frontage. The same applies in a lesser degree to the 

 main tributaries, the remainder being undulating to hilly and steep moun- 

 tainous country, chiefly of sandstone and slate formation with basalt, granite, 

 and ironstone in parts. 



The soil on the alluvial flats is an easily worked fertile soil, eminently 

 suited to crop production. A large area of the lower ridges is suitable for 

 dairying and mixed farming ; the remainder, which forms a large proportion 

 of this part of the district, is suitable for grazing only. 



Tn the northern part of the district, including the Richmond, Tweed, and 

 Brunswick Rivers, extending back to the head waters of the Clarence River, 

 the land varies from flat and undulating to hilly and mountainous country. 

 A fringe along the coast is 6andy, with fairly extensive swamps, some of 

 which have been drained and are very fertile. 



The greater portion of this northern part of the district is of volcanic 

 formation with smaller proportions of slate and sandstone and fairly exten- 

 sive alluvial flats. It includes what is known as the "Big Scrub" in the 



