<< Previous Page  .....  Fremantle and Geraldton. We will allow that you do all your wheat trade with Perth or Fremantle; your cattle trade with Geraldton or Perth, and your chaff and vegetable trade mainly with the Murchison Goldfields. You will advise buyers that your produce is ready, and bargain about the price. You will drive your cattle to the yards at Winchester Station (the station master will tell you when you can load), and pen them in special trucks; these will go direct to Geraldton without change. You will load your wheat into wagons and team (if bagged) to Winchester - the same obliging station master will tell you the best times - and this will be loaded (by your men) into special trucks and carried direct to Perth or Fremantle, or anywhere along the Goldfields line without transhipping. Your vegetables, &c., will be loaded into special wagons and carried direct to Geraldton, where they will be off-loaded and distributed along the line, unless you send a full wagon load. All you have then to worry about is to get your money in.

Schools. A school is a matter of some concern to the man with a growing family, but he need have no anxiety in Western Australia, for as soon as there are enough children the Education Department, who give a first-class education, will send an efficient teacher along and provide a school. A request from the parents of twenty children for schooling facilities will ensure the Department doing all that is needful.

Churches. Churches naturally grow with the needs of the community. The Midland Company have not lost sight of the importance of churches in the social and religious life of their settlers, and in the process of selection they intend to carry out as far as is practicable a territorial plan of placing families from the same county or parts of a county, so that they may have their own church and carry with them also all the traditions of their old homes to their new ones.

Climate. If more were needed to proclaim the special advantages of Western Australia for the emigrant farmer, it need only be said that its climate is a fortnight ahead of the rest of Australia in the matter of harvests, while its geographical position places it nearer to the markets of the Old World by a whole week. That is to say, you score three weeks on your export trade, and getting first to the market reach it at its best. The climate, unlike other countries which need not be specified, makes it possible to work all the year round.

Grazing. In cutting up these ready-made farms, the Company has so arranged the groups that every farm is capable of expansion, and in the direction where expansion is possible the Company is willing to grant a lease of adjoining ground for grazing purposes at the very  .....  Next Page >>