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A. A. Co. News, September 1994

dc.contributor.author	Australian Agricultural Company (1824 -)
dc.coverage.spatial	Australia
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-29T04:52:22Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-29T04:52:22Z
dc.date.created	Sep-94
dc.identifier	NBAC Z629-64-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/228539
dc.description	The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo or The Company) was formed in London in April 1824. Its purpose was to raise fine woolled sheep and sell wool on the London market. The formation of the Company was supported by an Act of Parliament and a Royal Charter. Its directors and major shareholders included directors of the Bank of England, the East India Company and Members of Parliament
dc.description	with assigned convicts given the roles of shepherding and general labour. The Company’s initial land grant was one million acres in New South Wales plus two thousand acres in Newcastle. After some uncertainty the land, in the colony, was in three blocks: 464,640 acres between Port Stephens and the Manning River (Port Stephens Estate), 249,600 acres on the Liverpool Plains west of Willow Tree (Warrah) and 313,298 acres at the Peel River south of Tamworth (Goonoo Goonoo). The AACo operated in four major NSW locations during the nineteenth century – Port Stephens, Tamworth, Quirindi, and Newcastle – and from the last quarter of the century also in Queensland and eventually in Northern Australia. Its interests expanded to include wool, wheat, cattle, coal and land sales.
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dc.format.medium	journal
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_AU
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Deposit Z629 - Australian Agricultural Company (Australian Office) deposit 14
dc.subject.other	Farming
dc.title	A. A. Co. News, September 1994
dc.type	Newsletter
local.description.notes	Staff newsletter number 13. -- The records of the Australian Agricultural Company are inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register.
dc.date.updated	2021-03-29T04:52:22Z
dc.provenance	Digitised by The Australian National University in 2021.
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