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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 8

Interviewed at Perth the other flay, Sir I John Forrest expressed great satisfaction i at assent -having, been given '.by the South £ Australian Parliament, to the survey of tho v proposed Trans-Australian railway.' There » can,'.ho says, be. no question whatever, as to ' tho result.that will be obtained L ; y tile siir- ' vey It must certaiiily prove that no engi- n lieering,difficulties whatever exist, and that » for nearly .full 1100 miles tho. railway 'wil' 't traverso' lovel, country,. with but slight un- c dulations, and-it will prove also—ami'this is 1: the most, important—that tho cost" of the con- a struction of tho railway will bo far jess than / bus genetajly been stated ( by engineers, who a always desiro, and' wisely so, (o bo on the ri right side. Ho believes that when'the whole u matter is settled, the railway will not cost " moro than £3,300,000. ■ li