Northcliffe 1924 - 2024: Scenes from Rural Life |
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| Author:
| Errington, Steve |
| ISBN: | 978-0-646-89372-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2024 |
| Publisher: | NPM
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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A centenary history of the town of Northcliffe, a tourist and dairy farming town located in the lower south west of Western Australia. It was the only new town formed as part of a massive 1920s group settlement scheme, designed by the State Government to turn the thinly populated south west into a dairy farming area by offering British Great War veterans 'a chance to own your own farm'. It was named after British press baron Viscount Northcliffe, a great supporter of the scheme. Being...
More DescriptionA centenary history of the town of Northcliffe, a tourist and dairy farming town located in the lower south west of Western Australia. It was the only new town formed as part of a massive 1920s group settlement scheme, designed by the State Government to turn the thinly populated south west into a dairy farming area by offering British Great War veterans 'a chance to own your own farm'. It was named after British press baron Viscount Northcliffe, a great supporter of the scheme. Being located in the midst of jarrah and karri forests it was for fifty years also a timber milling town.