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246 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Supr., 1897. 
Watawa, an integral portion of Bingera, is thirty miles from Bundaberg 
and twenty from Bingera, on the Mount Perry line. On this estate there are 
thirty-four lessees, twenty-eight of whom are growing cane under a ten years’ 
agreement, and whose cane is purchased by the mill proprietors at a price 
varying according to the density of the juice. Three miles of tramway run 
through the farms, none of the farmers having more than half a mile to draw 
the cane. In the illustration, the farmers are represented loading cane into 
Government wagons by means of derricks, of which there are some sixteen at 
various sidings conveniently situated:on the branch line. By these derricks, 
the cane, which has been loaded on to two chains in the bottom of the dray, is 
lifted bodily out and swung on to the railway truck in a few minutes, thus 
‘obviating the handling of the cane and waste of time. 
One of the firm’s locomotives is in attendance on this line, taking in empty 
and running out full wagons from the sidings. From this estate 200 tons of 
cane are daily being removed to Bingera, which works in conjunction with it. 
Last season 12,000 tons of cane were taken in this manner from the Cedars to 
the Bingera mill. ; 
