"My father, he was a soldier settler" #GRDC #Farming #HumansofAg

Name: "My father, he was a soldier settler" #GRDC #Farming #HumansofAg
Uploaded: 2024-05-29T22:08:38+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Gerri the NVT Guru
Description: A short YouTube monologue (Humans of Ag series) recounting a family's farm origins under Australia’s soldier-settlement scheme. The speaker explains…

29 May 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue (Humans of Ag series) recounting a family's farm origins under Australia’s soldier-settlement scheme. The speaker explains soldier-settler requirements (build a house, boundary fence, permanent water, then after 10 years title transfers) and says a man named B.O. Charlie Stokes drew the 1,800‑acre lot in 1951 via ballot and first held clear title on 1 January 1961; the speaker’s father later expanded the property.

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1,800 acres.

1951.

1 January 1961.

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Which was 1800 acres back then, before it was expanded later on by my father. But he was a soldier settler. And they under the rules of soldiers settlement, basically when they drew their lot, they were given the property to farm and they had to put a house on it, put a boundary fence and permanent water. And after 10 years, if they did these things and looked after it, obviously the title then transferred to them. So they actually owned the property. And. And this guy that drew this property, a B.O. called Charlie Stokes, he got it in 1951 through the ballot system. And on the 1st of January, 1961 was the first day that he actually owned the property. And that was the day in the clues pub that he had another title to my father.