UTMOST SCEPTICISM.
Reports of Bourke-Darwin Rail Project. OPINION IN LONDON. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 20. For the past three months reports have been trickling into London of an Australian plan, with British backing to the extent of £15,000,000, to build a railway from Bourke to Darwin. These are now appearing more circumstantially, but Australian Press Association inquiries in well-informed quarters indicate that the proposals are regarded here with the utmost scepticism. Authorities are asking how, with the present prices of irteat, anyone can expect such a developmental scheme to pay.
Early in December it was reported from Canberra that the Federal Ministry was considering a proposal to construct a rail'way from Bourkc, New South Wales, through Queensland and the Northern Territory to Port Darwin. It was said that a British and local syndicate was prepared to build the railway provided it was granted leasehold and freehold rights of enormous grazing lands in the Northern Territory, and a 09-year lease of Bathurst Island or Melvile Island.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 9
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