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land collapsing and the station being vacated for a time. In the late 1940s the
Tancred brothers invested in the company with Harry Tancred later appointed as the chairman of directors. Shortly afterwards the Lake Pure lease was acquired. Cattle grazing, which had been confined to the channels and wetlands, was expanded after
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scour can still be found on the property. Much of the labouring at Nappa Merrie at this time was done by the remnant
Wongkumara people. However, by the 1940s there was only three Aboriginal labourers present. At one point a flock of 46,000 head of sheep were grazing on the property resulting in the
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Conrick initially constructed the head station at
Baryulah waterhole, but after floods and violence with the numerous local Aboriginal people, he soon moved it to the Bullah Bullah waterhole where Burke and Wills had previously established their depot. In 1876, former
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Chastleton leases and occupied an area of 2,833 square miles (7,337 km) and was sold to the Playford River Pastoral Company by the Tancred Brothers and Conrick family.
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The station currently occupies an area of 7,275 square kilometres (2,809 sq mi) and is able to carry 11,000 head of cattle. It is currently owned by
Morella Agriculture (David Coulton) and is managed by Peter Degoumois.
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England where his father had been a reverend. A Native Police detachment under Sub-Inspector Walter Cheeke was stationed at Chastleton in 1877, and committed a massacre of the resident Aboriginal population.
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The property has a limited number of channels through the area but is part of a natural floodplain and contains low lying swamps that provide excellent feed after floodouts that last until the dry season. The
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The pastoral station of Nappa Merrie was established along Cooper Creek in 1873 by colonist John
Conrick. Conrick and five companions, all under the age of 21 and guided by Wongkumara man Jimmy Bostock,
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Nutting formed the Chastleton run on the north side of Cooper Creek across from Nappa Merrie. This property was named after Nutting's home town of
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Oil and gas exploration and extraction began on Nappa Merrie and the surrounding region in the latter half of the 20th
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processing facility near Ballera creek on Nappa Merrie started in 1991 and was completed and upgraded in 1997.
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In November 2016, the property was purchased by Morella Agriculture.
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made the area famous for the camps they made in the vicinity of
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