The northern territory police magazine $4 c tat

SHOTGUNS — AIR RIFLES — RIFLES SOUTHERN CITY PRICES

SPORTCO Auto 5 Shot	£62	15	0	.303 Military Rifles ..	£10	10	0
STIRLING D.B. H'Iess	47	10	0	.22 BRNO S. Shot Repeater	38	10	0
LUCCHINI D.B. Hammer	38	17	6	.22 GEVARM A.7 Auto ..	36	7	6
STIRLING V.R. Single	20	10	0	.22 GEVARM. A.3 Auto ..	29	17	6
STIRLING Plain S.B.	18	10	0	SPORTCO Mod. 62A Bolt	24	15	0
BENTLEY D.B. .	41	5	0	SPORTCO Mod. 90 Pump ..	28	14	0
BENTLEY D.B. Mod 100	35	15	0	VOERE 10 Shot Bolt . .	23	19	6
LASALLE Pump 4 Shot ..	44	10	0	VOERE 10 Shot Auto	27	15	0
MOSSBERG MAGNUM .22 640K ..	28	17	6	VOERE S/Shot . .	12	19	6
BROWNING PUMP ACTION .22 ..	39	17	6	SPORTCO S/Shot . . .	13	TO	0
BREDA & BROWNING Autos available				FIELDMAN 10 Shot Bolt	24	15	0

.303 cartridges, per 100, 1954 -- £⁴/₁0/0, 1958 — £5.

DAVIES SPORTS DEPOT

KNUCKEY STREET, DARWIN

P.O. Box 49 Phone 2075, 2784


Heading North from Robinson River you come to two small stations, Manangoora and Greenbanks. Both Manangoora and Greenbanks Stations are mainly covered in sandy soil and just about all the water holes, apart from the flowing rivers, contain brackish water. Seven Emus Station, which lies East of Greenbanks Station, is comparable with Manangoora and Greenbanks.

Situated in the heart of the Wollogorang Police District is a lease called Seigal's Creek. This lease has not been worked for the past four years, although formerly there was quite a lot of stock activity in this area. Seigal's Creek lease is situated in very rough country and few cattle roam this particular area. Still further South from Seigal's Creek is situated another Ivy small cattle lease named Springvale. To reach Springvale a four-wheel drive vehicle is required, or horses. Springvale is about 70 miles North from Gallipoli Station and the only good areas for cattle breeding are the many " pockets " which are located along most of the various streams running through the Springvale Lease. These pockets are usually about a mile to two miles square with a stream running down one side and hills on the other three sides. Fresh water is in ample supply on the Springvale Lease all the year round and some of the canyons and water courses are a photographer's dream. The only way to approach the Springvale Lease is by a track which travels over very rough but beautiful hills.

Going to the Northern Territory — Queensland Border in the Wollogorang Police District a rough track, which starts from well inside Queensland, leads to an area which is, renowned for various minerals and very high hills. In the hills have been found uranium, tin, gold and copper. Until recently a large amount of uranium was obtained from this particular area. On the recent Census in 1961,

I found four women working alone on a tin mine. These women — three quarter-caste Aboriginals and one half-caste Egyptian were miles from any other place of habitation and their only contact with the outside world was on very infrequent occasions when they visited a Native Mission some roe) miles away in Queensland for rations and to dispose of their hard-won ore. The women's ages ranged from 19 years to 35 years.

After the rough approaches in the Wollogorang Police District, it is a blessing to return to the black soil tracks of the Avon Downs District. At Gallipoli Station — the top North-eastern part of the Avon Downs District — to reach Avon Downs Police Station, there are two short routes — and for the " tourist " there is the long way round through Alexandria Downs Station and Rankine River. The shortest route is the one which takes one into Queensland and for about 5o miles the Northern Territory-Queensland Border fence is followed. Camooweal is reached 75 miles South of Gallipoli Station. Camooweal is situated eight miles inside the Queensland State on the Barkly Highway, and it is only 43 miles from Camooweal to Avon Downs Police Station. The other short trip from Gallipoli to Avon Downs Police Station has the traveller going West from Gallipoli Station towards Alexandria Downs Station. Half way between Gallipoli and Alexandria Downs the track turns South and for forty-odd miles to Rankine River is sighted the best cattle-raising country on Alexandria Downs Station — vast plains with very few trees, and a bore every ten miles attended to by an Aboriginal pumper. Unless the traveller knows this part of the country, he could very easily take the wrong turn, and possibly perish, as there are countless tracks all over Alexandria Downs. Each year the Station grades over 2,000 miles of tracks.