Bolivia Station in rural New England put on the market by McAlary family
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Bolivia Station, the historic rural property at Tenterfield in the New England district of northern NSW, has been listed with $3 million plus hopes.
It’s been listed by Patricia McAlary, the widow of the late Sydney barrister Frank McAlary, QC, the "dancing man" caught on film while twirling his hat in the air down a Sydney street on VP Day in 1945 at the end of World War II.
First taken up in 1840, Bolivia Station has been owned by the McAlary family for almost 40 years. It is offered with about 500 station-bred cows and about 240 heifers.
More than 20 parties have so far inspected the 2,946-hectare property, widely regarded as one of the best in the Northern Tablelands district.
Bolivia Station includes a 243-megalitre unregulated irrigation licence, two sets of cattle yards and an original homestead in need of repair.
There is also a manager's cottage, workers' cottage, shearing shed and shearers' quarters.
Tenders for the New England Highway property including the cattle close on November 10 through Ray White Rural Tenterfield agent Bruce Birch, in conjunction with Jim Ritchie of Landmark Harcourts Glen Innes.
The sale by Yurri North Pty Ltd to the Baker family in 2010 at $4.12 million was the Glen Innes shire district’s most recent big acreage transfer.
