FEDERAL CAPITAL. NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTER'S SPEECH.
By Telegraph.-l'rcia Association. -Copyright. (Received January 10.,' 10.17 a,.m.) SYDNEY; . This ; Di>y/ The Minister for Wo?ks, speaking- «t a function, said that if the Federal Go\ernmenfc would only ask the 'State Government for a federal capital sit-o th» Government, woujd be able to reply ift a very few hours. The Minister for Customs (Mr.. Chapman), in referring to Sir William i Lyne s' recent remarks concerning &• ■ federal capital, corjt?n<}s that tho Dalgety site has already been definitely selected. , More-over, Tooma, being so close to the Victorian bordeu, would / never be v acceptable to New South Wales. It was difficult to understand) the attitude of the New South Wale» Government in ' regard to the fo<jera|i capital question. The. State Treasurtrj had been advocating Lyndhurst, andl telling the people, of Alhqry that perhaps their district- , might y«t be the «it«f* of the federa) capital. It .eally looked, as if tho New South Wal«s Government were determined to h«v« tht whole mutter gone over again.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 08, 10 January 1908, Page 7
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169FEDERAL CAPITAL. NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTER'S SPEECH. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 08, 10 January 1908, Page 7
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