A CHOICE package of former Weilmoringle Station grazing country has been listed for sale at Brewarrina, providing the opportunity for an incoming owner to become established in a time of seasonal abundance.
“Langboyd” is a 9533 hectare (23,556ac) property owned by Donald and Gai Heitzman, who are selling after a lifetime of pastoralism.
The couple are selling in order to retire to Goondiwindi.
They have listed the property for private sale with Peter Milling and Company of Dubbo at an asking price of $3.5 million, close to the price reportedly paid per hectare for the neighbouring “Savanna”.
“Langboyd” is an aggregation of two adjoining former soldier settlement blocks (or part thereof), “Langboyd” and “Narrawandi”, which were among eight such blocks withdrawn from Weilmoringle Station in 1952.
Originally a Weilmoringle outstation, “Langboyd” in its original configuration was a block of about 6000ha, drawn in the 1954 ballot by Bert Costin.
He subsequently sold to Arthur Connolly, another ex-serviceman, who sold to John Murray.
The Heitzmans, who bought the property from Murray in 1972, had previously owned another property, “Donday”, adjoining “Langboyd”.
In 2002 the opportunity arose for them to expand their “Langboyd” holding with the purchase of a 3400ha portion of “Narrawandi”, originally another soldiers’ block in the same 1954 ballot, drawn by Eric Bartley, and later subdivided.
This built “Langboyd” to its present scale, which in good seasons has accommodated a self-replacing Merino flock of up to 5000 ewes as well as cattle.
There is ample opportunity for fattening stock.
Situated on a sealed road 80 kilometres north-west of Brewarrina, “Langboyd” is a property of level to slightly undulating country of fertile black and grey loams, supporting good stands of Mitchell grass, bluebush, neverfail and medics.
The property has a double frontage to the Birrie River which provides periodic beneficial flooding, and stock water is secured by a capped and piped bore reticulating to 43 concrete troughs, plus three ground tanks.
Average rainfall is about 400 millimetres, but already this year the district has received around 350mm and the country is awash with pasture.
Structural improvements include a comfortable three-bedroom homestead, two shearing sheds of four and five stands with sheepyards, steel cattle yards.
The property also has a 12-man shearers’ quarters.