Burra Town Hall

the pascoe collection. ...  too much praise cannot be given to the robust type of merino sheep based on the high open land contiguous to the railway line from manoora and extending northwards to near terowie. sheep from the burra district are especially noteworthy. bred as they are, under perfectly natural conditions, neither housed, rugged, nor fed on prepared fodders and sustained only by the indigenous grasses. thus they are essentially adapted to arid pastoral country. the districts comprised in the area mentioned supply the bulk of the merino stud rams for queensland and western australia as well as many parts of new south wales. the african stockowners are large buyers of both stud ewes and rams, and have expressed surprise that south australia is so generous as to allow them to select from the state's best merinos for export to africa, whilst africa in return will not reciprocate in the ostrich trade by even an egg. at the present time the question is being debated whether the supremacy of the south australian merino can be maintained in the smaller areas (now devoted to pastoral pursuits) since the cutting up of booborowie, north booborowie, gum creek, hill river and bungaree, districts previously noted for ram breeding and now cut into smaller areas and devoted to wheat growing. these districts surrounding the historic town of burra have for many years been known as ?the home of the typical merino? and with the object of displaying to the many visitors, stockbreeders, and the general public the class of sheep bred on the various stations, mr r.d. pascoe, an enterprising and highly respected resident of kooringa has during the past four years secured the framed photographs of no fewer than 129 different stud sheep. these he has tastefully arranged and hung in his spacious and splendidly lighted hairdressing saloon situated in commercial st, therein securing a decoration of which he has every reason to feel proud. the collection of pictures has been inspected by many well-known dealers and breeders in the commonwealth, and has been adjudged by all to be the finest and most valuable in the state. it has also been a source of great convenience to local, interstate, new zealand, and south african buyers. ... the photos which are uniformly framed and mounted range from 7? x 4?2? to 2? x 2??, and were taken by messrs c.p. scott, w.b. page, edwards & roach.