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when the rapid increase of their flocks and herds rendered the extension of their estates, by the purchase of additional tracts of waste land from the government, absolutely necessary; these purchases increased with great rapidity, insomuch that the revenue arising exclusively from the sale of Crown land in the territory of New South Wales already amounts to considerably upwards of £100,000 per annum; the following being the extent sold during the last six months before I left the colony, with the prices annexed, as compared with the extent sold during the four previous years:—
| LANDS. | |||||||
| Number of acres | Amount sold for | ||||||
| January | 36,960 | 0 | 0 | £ | 12,358 | 12 | 9 |
| February | 5,027 | 0 | 30 | 2,080 | 12 | 3 | |
| March | 38,872 | 0 | 0 | 13,429 | 6 | 1 | |
| April | 49,395 | 2 | 10 | 15,439 | 0 | 1 | |
| May | 23,728 | 0 | 25 | 7,137 | 18 | 3 | |
| June | 15,951 | 0 | 0 | 4,440 | 7 | 6 | |
| Total No. of acres | 169,933 | 3 | 25 | £ | 54,885 | 16 | 11 |
