New South Wales
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There is more than a little irony in the fact that many of the Highland emigrants to Australia, particularly at the time of the HIES-sponsored vessels of the 1850s, who had been cleared from their homes to make way for sheep, found employment in New South Wales on sheep stations.
Nor was this an economy independent of the one which had driven them overseas. The Australian goldrush had led to many abandoning work on the sheep farms and this caused great consternation in British manufacturing circles. Mr Bonamy Price wrote to the HIES,
'I am making no appeal to your charity. I address you as a Yorkshire manufacturer deeply interested in procuring an adequate supply of wool from Australia. I venture to hope for the vigorous support of you and your brother capitalists, as an instrument pre-eminently adapted to accomplish your object.'
The photographs show sheep-farming activities in New South Wales around the turn of the twentieth century when one-fifth of the world's wool came from Australia.
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