"Samuel James Oxley (1869-1950) the son of English-born Owen Oxley had arrived in the colony in 1838 as a child. Samuel was born in Richmond, New South Wales, and grew up in Mudgee, Orange and Coonabarabran.
Quite early in life Samuel became a prosperous city merchant. At the age of 19 he had moved to Sydney and by 1892, aged 23 years, already owned a warehouse in Sussex Street. In 1904 he was appointed Manager of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Co-operative Society.
In the course of his business career Samuel owned a factory in Bega producing ‘Oxley’s Butter’, a cheese factory in Wagga Wagga and a store in Peak Hill. He engaged in exporting a variety of foodstuffs to India and China and importing tea, rice and broken eggs from there.
He was the first to export butter from Australia to Europe, devising a successful method of packing butter and salt in alternate layers in wooden casks. He also experimented with making egg-powder and was the first person in Sydney to market it. He first used eggs from the north coast of New South Wales, but when these became expensive, he began to import eggs from China. However, because of the high import duty on whole eggs, he imported, free of duty, sealed tins of broken eggs from Shanghai and Hong Kong. The Australian Customs in due course found a way to impose a duty on this trade.
The trade with China flourished for a decade, but the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 placed it in jeopardy. Samuel’s younger brother in China just escaped, but the manager of another branch was killed. In one year, Samuel lost £40,000 when two of his ships laden with foodstuffs, and uninsured, sank on the way to China." http://www.bchg.org.au/index.php/people/individuals/l-r/86-samuel-oxley
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The cache is a very well hidden Camoed Micro. Please move away from GZ once cache is found to complete the signing duties. Use Caution and Stealth when Muggles are around this reserve as there is a playground great for children so bring the Geokids along for a play. Please Replace Exactly as you Found it.
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