NORTHERN TERRITORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 9

NORTHERN TERRITORY.

SCHEME FOR ENGLISH EXPERTS PROPOSAL. MELBOURNE, August 14. The • report of the English consulting engineer, Sir Geonre Buchanan, upon his investigations with a view to the development of the Northern Territory, has been tabled in the House of Representatives. It advocates the construction of railways to link the territory up with Queensland, and of lines from there to Camooweal to form a link with the New South Wales lines at Bourke. This scheme would bring Darwin into direct communication with Sydney. The lines would be valuable for defence. Sir George suggests the immediate commencement of the work. He also recommends the improvement of Port Darwin. He says the future of the territory depends largely on the proper development of the pastoral industry. The climate in the north is, he says, trying for white people, but it could be made suitable for them within certain limits. Closer settlement within the coastal area would probably prove disastrous. The report lays stress on. the point that all questions connected with the territory should be kept out of the political arena, and that all should work together for its development.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)