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Report on the Examination of Crown Lands etc. in the County of Wellington
Appendix I. Exploration, County of Wellington - From Roger River to Marrawah Plain
Appendix II. Exploration 5700 acres State Forest Reserve - Parish of Lerunna
Appendix III. Parish of Warra
Appendix IV. Parish of Marrawah
Appendix V. Parish of Lerunna
Appendix VI. Parish of Riengeena
Appendix VII. V.D.L. Co's Woolnorth Block
Appendix VIII. Parish of Williams
Appendix IX. Parish of Togari
Appendix X. Parishes of Malompto and Terragomna
Appendix XI. Parish of Mowbray
Appendix XII. Parish of Ford
Appendix XIII. Parish of Poilinna
Appendix XIV. Parish of Gibson
Appendix XV. Parishes of Trowutta and Meryanna
Appendix XVI. Hunters Islands

Well. 2b.

APPENDIX XIV
Parish of Gibson

      The parish of Gibson west of Poilinna contains about 20,000
acres of land of which one small area of about 400 acres in the
extreme S.W. is the only Crown Land, and all selection, except about
1,000 acres was first class. Practically everything S.W. of a line
from the N.W. angle of Gibson to the N.E. angle of Trowutta was
selected during the past 25 years as well as a thousand acres north
east of that line. All the country east of the Trowutta railway
is hill land, reaching a maximum altitude of about 800 feet and of
red and chocolate basaltic soil, with the exception of about two
thousand acres of grey soil in the extreme S.W. of the area, and a
few hundred acres in the north west corner. About 3,000 acres of
the south east is fairly level table land, and nearly half the
remainder is rather broken, including a good deal of hill side, but
only a small proportion is too steep or rough for cultivation, and
the whole is well watered.
      The country west of the Trowutta line from the southern
boundary to near Copper Creek station, contains about equal
quantities of third class and first class alluvial flats. Champions
Flats at Copper Creek are exceptionally rich, comprising 500 or 600
acres of first class flat, of which much is probably unequalled in
the whole of Circular Head, and from here to the Parish boundary the
land is good first class or fair second class and generally low hill
country. Included in this is the Irishtown district, which like
Forest is well known as a good fertile area, growing good crops of
the usual kind, as well as being good grazing country, and in a
forward state of development. The general quality of the soil
throughout Gibson is good, and in view of the adverse conditions
prevailing in rural matters of late years, the state of settlement
is quite satisfactory. The Trowutta railway traverses the parish
diagonally from N.E. to S.W. and provides good facilities for outlet,
most of the grades to it being with the load. Most of the district
is fairly well developed by metalled main roads completed in recent
years, and the principal cross roads are gradually providing good
outlets to the farmers. The mean rainfall at Irishtown is 50½ ins,
well distributed through the year and falling upon half the days
of the year, and, as in the adjoining parishes, the temperature is
mild.

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