Group Settlement continued

It was hoped that the Scheme would reduce the State's dependence on dairy imports - and in this regard it can be deemed to have succeeded. After much hardship and suffering the scheme resulted in the eventual development of a dairy industry. By the 1930s a number of dairies had opened throughout the South-West. At the same time members of the Group Settlements helped to build the infrastructure of the State's South-West.

Roads and railway tracks were pushed through previously inaccessible areas to provide access to lands newly cleared by settlers on the Groups.