[6] The following year all the station stock and plant was sold off and the property was effectively abandoned.

At this time Kappawanta occupied an area of 102 square miles (260 km2) and was stocked with 6,200 sheep, 15 cattle and 5 horses and had been divided into 18 paddocks.

Morris remained on the property routinely producing between 90 and 160 bales of wool each year until he died after a brief illness at age 56 in 1908.

[11] Elizabeth Morris continued to run the property, with her sons eventually taking over management.

[12] In 1932 large areas of Kappawanta and neighbouring properties Hillside and Portanna, were all swept by bushfires that started from lightning strikes.