An edition of The rural entrepreneurs (2000)
The rural entrepreneurs
a history of the stock and station agent industry in Australia and New Zealand
By Simon P. Ville
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Publish Date
2000
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
259
Description:
This gives a history of an Australasian institution, the stock and station agency. It examines the ways in which stock and station agents grew from their beginnings in the 1840s as pastoral finance companies to offer support services to remote and inexperienced farming communities.
subjects: Animal industry, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Stockyards, History, Stockyards, Wool industry, Sheep industry
Places: Australia, New Zealand