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Thylungra was sold some time in 1884 although Durack had legal action taken against him to recover the commission still owed to the company that sold the property. The purchasers were the
Queensland Cooperative Pastoral Company, who placed it on the market when it went into
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10.5 million to George Scott in a private sale after it had been passed in at auction a month earlier. The property occupied an area of 2,820 square kilometres (1,089 sq mi) and was stocked with 45,000 sheep and almost 2,000 head of cattle.
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Bungindery Station. At this stage they occupied a combined area of 2,525 square miles (6,540 km) and were stocked with 9,000 head of cattle and 300 horses.
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about 3,000 miles (4,828 km). Half the stock did not survive the journey, which Durack completed nearly two and a half years later.
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of wool weighing over 18 long tons (18 t) in 1913, at which time Munro's name was also on the lease.
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