‘Urangeline’: A Riverina station saga

By Peter Austin
Updated August 21 2015 - 6:40pm, first published May 30 2015 - 4:00am
FarmBuy Real Estate
Shearers pose for a photograph at the 75-sand woolshed at in about 1900, when shearing more than 10,000 sheep was the order of the day.
Shearers pose for a photograph at the 75-sand woolshed at in about 1900, when shearing more than 10,000 sheep was the order of the day.

WHEN Robert Rand bought the "Urangeline" portion of the Brookong Run from the Osborne brothers in 1864, the price was agreed on the basis of one pound ($2) for every sheep supposedly included with the property.

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