EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Offered as a whole or individually without contingencies

AREA:
“Lava Downs” 1,629.8 hectares (4,027.30 acres)
“Inverness” 1,556.0 hectares (3,844.87 acres)
“Wilga” 1,128.3 hectares (2,788.02 acres)
“Westfield” 716.1 hectares (1,769.50 acres)

LOCATION:
Located approximately 29 kilometres north of Warialda on the Yetman Road and 94 kilometres west of Inverell by the Gwydir Highway. Access to Warialda comprises good bitumen road

SERVICES:
Rural power, telephone, mail x 3 times weekly, school bus at main road to Warialda, grain depot at Warialda and Croppa Creek, weekly stock sales at Moree and Inverell

TITLE:
Freehold

RAINFALL:
700mm (28 inches)

COUNTRY:

“Lava Downs” & “Westfield”
Landform is generally sloping to gently undulating, with some hilly. The country varies a bit and comprises good heavy black at the front of the property to chocolate and red basalt soils rising to the hill

There are some areas of stone on the steeper areas, but the soils are all of very good quality

“Inverness” & “Wilga”
Sloping to gently undulating. Country varies from good heavy black through the centre of the property to chocolate and red basalt soils with small area of lighter red. Original timber was myall, wilga, kurrajong, box, gum and ironbark. Approximately 160 hectares is timbered still

CROPPING:

“Lava Downs” & “Westfield”
Approximately 800 hectares plus 182 hectares (982 hectares) cleared up for cultivation. Approximately 200 hectares established to lucerne. The remainder of the property is grazing hill country, and is mostly open

“Inverness” & “Wilga”
1,250 hectares of cultivation and approximately 1,300 hectares open grazing/pasture country. Pasture mix comprises blue grass, purple pidgeon, panic, Rhodes, trefoils and clovers in season

FENCING:

“Lava Downs”
Looks to be well subdivided into 16/17 paddocks with some smaller holding paddocks. The boundary is fair/good and is mainly netting and barb

“Westfield”
Looks to be well subdivided into 7 main paddocks with some smaller holding paddocks. The boundary is fair/good and is mainly netting and barb. Internal constructions comprises mainly hinge joint, plain and barb

“Inverness” & “Wilga”
Boundary fencing is fair/good and is mainly netting and barb. Internal fencing comprises mainly hinge joint, plain and barb

WATER SUPPLY:

“Lava Downs”
Domestic water is supplied from an electric bore and from rainwater tanks. There is also a second equipped bore, reported to be 85 metres and 112 metres approximately

The bores are pumped to 4 tanks on the hill which are then reticulated around the property

“Westfield”
Domestic water is supplied from an electric bore and from rainwater tanks. The bore is pumped to a tank on the hill behind the house which is then reticulated around the property. There are 18 round concrete troughs

There are a total of 4 good earth dams. There are also creeks and gullies through the property that will run water at times. All paddocks have water

“Inverness” & “Wilga”
Water supply overall is good. There are 7 bores. The main bore waters most of the property which is reticulated to most paddocks, with the other 6 bores being older. There is a creek through the centre of the property. Also new 1,200 megalitre dam intended to irrigate the creek flats

IMPROVEMENTS:

“Lava Downs”
4 bedroom brick veneer homestead, machinery shed, cattle yards with crush and ramp, 2 x 100 tonne silos elevated on concrete, 3 x 30 tonne silos elevated, 3 bedroom weatherboard cottage, 2 bedroom weatherboard cottage, 3 stand shearing shed, workshop, grain shed, hay sheds, stables with attached steel yards, 100 tonne capacity weighbridge

“Westfield”
2 bedroom weatherboard house, machinery shed, cattle yards with crush and ramp, 2 x silos

“Inverness”
5 bedroom weatherboard homestead, 2 bedroom renovated cottage, 40m x 16m steel machinery shed, silos: 4 x 50 tonne elevated, 2 x 70 tonne elevated, grain shed, 12m x 6.5m shed with concrete floor, 13m x 17m workshop, 4 stand shearing shed, cattle yards with covered race

“Wilga”
3 bedroom weatherboard house, 2 bedroom weatherboard cottage, 2 x 30 tonne elevated silos, cattle yards with covered race

CONTACT:
For any further information or inspection, contact:

Moree Real Estate
Phone: (02) 6751 1100
Fax: (02) 6752 1766
Web: www.moreerealestate.com.au

After Hours
Allan Gobbert – 0428 523 375
Paul Kelly – 0428 281 428
Tim Gleeson – 0407 111 775
Cliff Brown – 0428 669 173

“All care has been taken in compiling this information sheet but it is prepared on instructions and details supplied by the vendor, for whom we act as agents only, and we cannot accept any responsibility for errors or omission (if any). Intending purchasers should satisfy themselves as to the correctness of these particulars.”