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various creeks are suitable for agricultural settlement. It is onl 

 partially surveyed at the time of writing (1897), and has not yet 

 been thrown open for settlement. The area contains some good 

 land, both for cereals and fruit-growing. Surface water is scarce, 

 but supplies may be obtained by tanks and wells. It is intersected 

 by the Pallinup river, and Warperup creek and many tributaries. 

 This area is likely, when opened, to become a much sought after 

 and valuable one. 



Pingelly, 32 miles from Beverley, is a fine wheat-growm 

 district which offers exceptional advantages to settlers, owing to a 

 block of 191,400 acres, with an extensive frontage to the Hotham 

 river, and close to the railway station, which belonged to the 

 Western Australian Land company, being available for selection. 

 The Moorumbine agricultural area, which has already been 

 described, also runs up to a siding, so that the transportation of 

 produce is \vell provided for. The Advertiser (Albany) furnishes 

 some evidence of the fertility of the soil. That journal reports that 

 Mr. J. N. Taylor, nine miles west of Pingelly, obtained 900 bushels 

 of wheat from 30 acres of land, or at the rate of 30 bushels per acre. 

 Off the field referred to, Mr. Taylor has taken never less than 2 

 bushels to the acre, and that only in very bad seasons. Some of the 

 900 bushels of wheat which is the subject of notice, was purchased 

 by Mr. A. Y. Hassell, who pronounced it to be as good a sample of 

 seed grain as he had ever seen. The next township going south 

 along the railway is Narrogin, 63 miles from Beverley, which is 

 surrounded by large areas of arable lands, which are extensively 

 under cultivation. The conservation of water is rendered easy in 

 this locality owing to the presence of many small watercourses, 

 which can be dammed at a small expenditure of money and labor. 

 Besides the unoccupied blocks of the Narrogin agricultural area, 

 there are 9,180 acres of the resumed land grants to choose from. 

 These grants adjoin the agricultural area, the railway station, and 

 the townsite. 



Wagin Lake, 95 miles from Beverley, is a very progressive 

 scene of farming industry. It is studded with excellent farms, which 

 are in an advanced state of improvement. Within the last six 

 months the officers of the Lands' department have been kept busy 

 in registering new applications for land, which inspection shows to 

 be easily cultivated and capable of growing heavy crops. Among 

 the chief settlers is the Hon. C. A. Piesse, one of the pioneers of the 

 Arthur river settlement on the Perth-Albany road. When the Great 

 Southern railway was opened, Messrs. F. H. and C. A. Piesse, who 

 had been in business at the Arthur river, migrated to Katanning and 

 Wagin Lake. They b< >nght land largely from the Western Australian 

 company, and have spent much money in utilising it for farms and 

 orchards. It is their rule never to keep an acre of wholly unim- 

 proved land, the improvements ranging from fencing and ring- 

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