College lease: How the Chaffeys helped schools

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WHEN brothers William and George Chaffey made their plans for an irrigated settlement at Mildura, they set aside one-fifteenth of available lands.These “college lease” lands were intended to generate revenue to fund a local agricultural college, which was to serve the district’s irrigated horticulture industries.Though the agricultural college didn’t eventuate, the trust at first benefited […]

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