£l5 MILLION PROJECT
Bourke-Darwin Railway
London, Jan. 20.
In the past three months reports have been trickling into London of an Australian plan, with English backing, to the extent of £l5 million, to build a railway from Bourke to Darwin. These reports are now appearing more circumstantially, but Inquiries by the Australian Press Association in well-in-formed quarters indicate that the proposals are regarded here with the utmost scepticism, the authorities asking how, with the present prices of meat, any one can expect such a developmental schema to pay.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 9
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88£l5 MILLION PROJECT Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 9
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