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Gust a Ve Thomas Carlisle Miller 1 :. 20S TUESD.tlY, 21 ALARCn,1!H6. lThe Commission met at the Mechanics Hall, Howlon~, Ncw South Wales.] i\rtscnt:- GUST AVE THOMAS CARLISLE MILLER, ESQ" M.IJ.A., N.S.W. (IN THE CHAIR). SAMUEL BARNES, ESQ.,M.L.A., Vic!oria. The Hon. JOHN WILLIAM BILLSON, M.L.A. ., Victoria. The Hon. ALFRED HICKS, M.L.C, Victoria. The Hon. WILLIAM FERGUH HURLEY, M.L.C., New South Wales. The Hon. DONALD MELVILLE, M.L.C., Victoria. The Hon. JOHN TRAVERS, M.L.C., New South Wales. BRINSLEY HA'LL, ESQ., M.L.A., New South Wales. PATRICK McGARRY, ESQ., M.L.A., New S~uth Wales . .JOHN BARNES NICHOLSON, ESQ., M.L.A, New South Wales. ROBERT HENRY SOLLY, Es(~., M.L.A., Victoria. RICHARD FltEDER,IOK TOUTCHER, ESQ., M.L.A., Victoria. DAVIn REID, commission agent, Howlong, sworn, and and machinery at a lesser charge, which means a benefit to examined:- the farmer. Every penny that is of benefit to the farmer i.i . 5209. CHAIRMAN: What do ~'ou wish to i'lay~ As of benefit to the State, and I feel assured that, jf the c~n­ the secretary of the league which I represent, I wish to cession is granted to us, instead of 150,000 bags of wheat place our case before you .. 'Tljis district, of which you have from this area of 111,000 acrcs you would have three times the outline, contains a patrol district of 74,000 acres. Out­ that quantity. You would have half a 'million bushels of s.ide of that there is another area, making altogether 111,000 wheat. Giving us the port of Melbourne would take away acres. This district has produced 150,000 bags of 'wheat that revenue from New South Wales, but we have to look ~his year, which, of course, is a source of revenue; but we at the matter in a national point of view. No 'matter here consider that;owing to the want of raIlway communi­ wherever,the community is prosperous, Sf) is the State" and ~ation to our nearest port, Melbourne, we are debarred the more prosperous the condition of the man on the land from getting the greatest 'value from our products. Con­ the more prosperous the State. "Ve ask you to make us a sequently the league asks the Commission to consider the more prosperous people. I will give you the statistics of the proposal to grant the concession of the railway connection' State. In the 111,000 acres there have 'been 150;840 bags of to Barnawartha, via. Brocklesby. The reason is that tho wheat, 6,078 bags of oats, 5,100 tOllS of hay ;3,709 horse':! owners of those properties, owing to the distance they have employed in general work; 3,613 head of cattle; and 37,286 to cart their wheat, do not cultivate the areas they should. sheep. The sheep, previous to the' drought, were '60,000. Out of the 111,000 acres there are between 60,000 and 70,000 That will show the productive state of the 111,000 acre:]. acres of cultivable land; the majority of it lies now in its 'Ve now ask you to give us a railway which will produce native state, not producing what it should of a productiV(~ four times that amount. Another point is' this: You are value to the State. Consequently, that is detrimental to well aware that the State has Rgreed on another series of the interests ot the State and the' producer. We ask the Com­ irrigation works-that is the Cumberoona weir. The main mission to take into consideration the question of giving cR~al, surveyed years ago under the auspices of the deceased us railway facilities. Now the position we occupy here is: statesman,' Sir ..Villi am , J~J'11e, was surveyed down here. -Howlong is 180 miles from Melbourne. To the railway of That passes through the midst of this land. Every inch of Brocklesby we are 12 miles, and it is 387 miles to Sydney. it is fertile, and the whole of it could be brought under Consequently by that we, not having railway communica­ irrigation for closer settlement. It is the idea of the vari­ tiOIl, have to pay the freight on cartage of 12' miles or ,0 ous 'Governments that doser settlement is needed, and that miles to the railway in New South Wales, and are co~fined canRI must show you that this district will not retrogress, to the one port, or, if we wish to avail ourselves of the port but, will progress. 'Ve ask you to give us these facilities­ of. 1.felbourne, which 'is our natural port,' pay excess in to serve us with a railway. The railway would be a paying charges of railway freightage, either from Brocklesby t·) concern as a commercial matter from its initiation. The IN ahgunyah, or Corowa to Culcairll, and 011 to Albury. whole qf the railway construction, 12 miles to Brocklesby, Consequently it pla.ces the producer in the hands of the could be constructed for £2,000 a mile; 11 miles on the buyers. We have no competition from Victorian buyers, other side at £2,000, and allowing £40,000 for bridging, i" and that has an effect on the producer here, through his £80,000. Taking 5 per ccnt. on that, would be £4,000 a year, not getting the greatest result from his work. I think you and allowing 2 per cent. for sinking' fund, that would be will see that, if you consider the matter. The line proposecl £5,600 a year; and I venture to' assert the first returns of would not only be' of benefit to the producers here, but it t.he railway would be 20,000 to 25,000 tons of wheat at lOs. would be of benefit to the railway system of New South a ton, leaving the stock and passenger traffic to pay the Wales, by making a connecting link from .the' Corowa line wear and tear ot the railway'line. It would be a paying to the main line in Victoria, obviating the duplication of qsncern from its inception. the railway line from Culcairn to Albury, and Albury tel 5210-11. How far are you from any line ~ 12 miles. Melbourne. That in itself would convey to you a business 5212. What is a fair distance to cart produce to a rail· • proposition, because it would relieve the congestion that way? A bout 6 miles. occurs in Albury and W odonga. We are held up here from 5213. The general trenCl of evidence is 10 to 15 miles;­ ;:our natural port, ~[elbournfl. Then comes another phtlse of do you know the land between the two points ~ Yes; it it; the question; that is the extra charge for manures that are fit for producing cereals of an descriptions, fruit, and recei ved. We have to pay cartage from lIfelbourne to Wah­ so em. gunyah, on to Corowa, end then railway charges to 5214. Is it fit for closer settlement ~ Yes, more especi. ~I'ooklesby, 'and on to the farmer; whereas, if we had direet ally with an irrigation schemc. :l':f~a:way communication, we would be able to have manure 5215, How much land is vacant? It is all alienated'. 209 Witnt!8s-D. Reid, 2i Marca, 1916.' 0216. How much is under cultivation? Out of the 5242. What Government was in powed I think the one In;OOO acrcs there are only 20,000 under cultivation. before the Labour party came in; I think it was the Wade 5217. With railway facilities how much would there be? Government. ' Four times the amount. 5243. Does not this appear to be a very small item in this 5218. How long have you been in the looality1 Forty great territory, to get that railway to go across that country years. to serve a few acres that arQ already served, according trj 5219. lfn. HGRLEY: Is there any return showing how' the carting distance for farmers I 1\-fy idea is that we ask much wheat has gone to Sydney and Melbourne? No. for the line to give us greater facilities to our natural port .. 5220. Which market do you look on as paying the best? 5244. That 111,000 acres is agricultural land, of which :Melbourne, especially with stock-180 miles and 389 miles 20,000 acres are farmed ;-how is it held ~ In freehold; is a wonderful difference in decreasing the value of stoC:K. there are 100 odd holders-.:t,OOO, 3,000 aeres, and so on. It means a loss of 400 milea. If you buy sheep and truck 5245. What is the minimum area that is a fair thing f(r~ them 400 miles you can calculate on a loss of 6 lb. p-Jlch a man to have as his holding? A man can make a living on sheep. 320 acres if h8 has facilities. 5221. Do you speak of the production of cattle and sheep 5246. What is he doi qg to-day ~ Farming and grazing. in that particular district? I am speaking of the whole 5247. On what area? Various areas; some have 200 6f it. acres, and some 90 aCfGS. 5222. That stock may be produced where there is a rail­ 5248. He is making a do of that 320 acres to-day? Yes. way to-day ~ Yes, but I am speaking of the frontages. 5249. He wants facilities., 01' he could not do iH He 5223.
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