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GWYDER DISTRICT

TROPICAL RAINS
 

The Situation of these Northern Rivers is favourable for the grazier as a greater Supply of Tropical Rain falls in the Northern Districts, then falls to the South of the Liverpool Range of Mountains.

WAGES OF SHEPHERDS, STOCKMEN & WATCHMEN DUTY OF THESE MEN RATION ALLOWANCE
The wages of Shepherds vary in the same district. Thus when these men are hired at Armadale in New England for £17 per annum, the settlers on Byron plains are hiring men for twenty pounds per annum, or in more remote districts for instance Darling Downs where the country is more open & the Sheep are run in larger flocks, twenty five pounds per annum is given for a Shepherd.

The Shepherd takes out his flock one hour after sun rise in the morning the sheep are put into the folds no sooner than sun down

In New England sheep are run in flocks of eleven hundred in Darling Downs in Some instances in flocks of two thousand

Shepherds are accountable for all lost sheep from their flocks, & their account charges with such loss

The settler or his overseer count each flock twice each week. The Shepherd & Watchman count the flock in & out of the fold as arranged among themselves. The watchman whose duty is to shift the hurdles of his fold to new ground daily, and to sleep in a watch box close to these folds, receives [indecipherable] wages than a shepherd. The risk attendant upon his occupation being Considered less. The stockman whose duty it is to keep the cattle on the run, to muster these cattle quarterly in the stockyard is generally paid with twenty two per annum

 

 

 

 

 

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