How Australia cottoned on

By Matthew Cawood
Updated December 31 2015 - 10:35am, first published May 18 2013 - 4:00am
Continuing the family legacy, James Kahl and his son Sam pick the family’s 2012-13 season cotton at Wee Waa.
Continuing the family legacy, James Kahl and his son Sam pick the family’s 2012-13 season cotton at Wee Waa.

IN THE early 1960s the papers were breathlessly calling cotton “white gold”, but there really was an element of goldrush in the building of the cotton industry.

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