Simon Ville, page 219, The Rural Entrepreneurs Cambridge University Press, 2000. The three terms are used interchangeably in this book ( The Rural Entrepreneurs) as was the practice of the firms themselves.'

The terms 'pastoral' or 'farming' agent might better convey the broad meaning. However the business of most leading agents was much wider than this.

^ In his book Simon Ville states: 'The term stock and station agent is variously defined as the buying and selling of rural properties and stock or dealing in land, products and supplies, Macquarie Dictionary (2nd edn, Sydney, 1988), p 985, Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary (2nd end, Melbourne, 1992) p 1141.

National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand.

Some of these businesses grew very large in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

They operate as the agent of their client, on behalf of the particular pastoralist or farmer.

The same word was used for a defensible residence constructed on the American frontier during the early nineteenth century.

Station refers to a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose-in this case in Australasia-for pastoral industry, see Australia: Stations and New Zealand: Stations.

Stock refers to livestock, its purchase and sale.

Similar and sometimes the same organisations operated in Latin America and the Midwestern United States, which had extensive pastoral farming. In practice, they were the pastoralist's banker. These rural business services institutions originated, when communications were slow and often very difficult, to cope with the double remoteness of early Australian and New Zealand primary producers from their nearest settlement and, particularly in the case of wool, from their overseas markets.

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