 In the early years, the residents of Cummeragunja shaped most of the land into a productive farm, producing wheat, wool and dairy products, 

The NSW Aborigines Protection Association administered the station from its beginnings until 1892 (subsidised by the government), when their funds ran dry and management was handed over to the government's Board for the Protection of Aborigines.In 1907 the blocks were revoked and later leased out to white farmers.The "Aborigines Protection Act 1909" gave the government greater control, and in 1915, after the local farmers' committee was abolished and amendments to the Act gave the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines even wider powers, the Board took greater control of Cummeragunja and its residents.