Quick Tour
- The Chaffey Agreement was signed on 30 May 1887.
- Alfred Deakin was the Minister for Water Supply at
this time.
- 250,000 hectares of land was set aside for use as an
irrigation settlement.
- The licence was for 21 years.
- The Chaffey brothers had to construct works to help
irrigate the land and make substantial permanent improvements
to the land during that time.
- The Chaffeys had to spend three hundred thousand pounds
on the land during that time.
- This was to be spent during four periods, each of five
years as follows:
- the first five years 30,000 pounds
- the second five years 140,000 pounds
- the third five years 70,000 pounds
- the fourth five years 50,000 pounds
- They first had to improve sixty thousand acres.
- They had to remove trees, birds and animals on the
land that the government proclaimed as vermin.
- All irrigation works were to be kept in good repair.
- The government was allowed to take back land that it
needed to build railways, roads, canals, reservoirs and drains.
- They had to build all engines and machinery in New
South Wales.
- They would try to set up canning and preserving industries
in the area during the first five years and carry on these industries
after that time.
- The government would set up an agricultural school
or college to train people for local needs.
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