‘TARINGA’ Coolatai, N.S.W.

SITUATION:
48kms North of Warialda via Yetman Rd, 8kms North of Coolatai

AREA:
1011 hectares (app 2500 acres)

COUNTRY:
Ranges from rich black alluvial flats along Ottley Creek which forms part of the western boundary to gently sloping country with low grazing hills and some timbered areas. Soils away from the creek flats consist of lighter red
loam to some areas of a more sandy type. Timber consists of river gums, grey box, broad-leaf iron bark, myall, wilga, with wattle, pine and a variety of scrub trees.

App 245 hectares have been cultivated with app 50 hectares
sown to oats.

WATER:
Double frontage to Ottley Creek with permanent water holes, 1 bore equipped with pressure pumps to house and troughs, 1 bore equipped with pump and motor to tank and troughs, 2 unequipped bores, 4 large dams and several smaller dams.

FENCING:
Boundary consists of netting and plain wire, 6 barbs and 2 plain wires, new to stock proof, sub-division fencing all good to stock proof.

RAINFALL:
700 mm annual average.

IMPROVEMENTS:

Homestead:
Well presented 2 bedroom timber home, lounge/dining room,
kitchen, bathroom, gauzed verandah on two sides, open front verandah, tiled rear entrance, wood heater, attached self contained 2 bedroom visitors quarters all set in established gardens with in-ground pool.

Other accommodation:
Old two bedroom timber cottage.

Machinery:
60 x 30 steel and timber shed, power, timber and gal iron
shed.
Fodder storage: Hay shed
Cattle yard: Timber set with race, crush and calf-marking cradle.
Other improvements:
3 stables and tack room.

REMARKS:
Taringa is ideally suited for sheep or cattle breeding and fattening with good internal fencing and higher rainfall area. A management programme of timber treatment has taken place over a number of years. The owner estimates the
property to carry 250 cows and calves plus fattening.