The rural entrepreneurs
Subtitle: a history of the stock and station agent industry in Australia and New Zealand
By: Simon Ville.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Animal industry -- Australia -- History; Animal industry -- New Zealand -- History; Wool industry -- Australia -- History; Wool industry -- New Zealand -- History; Stockyards -- Economic aspects -- Australia -- History; Stockyards -- Economic aspects -- New Zealand -- History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.