MURRAY WATERS. CONFERENCE AT MELBOURNE. PARTIAL AGREEMENT -ARRIVED AT.
By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. MELBOURNE, 23rd January. The Murray Waters Conference, at which Victoria, New South Wales, and j South Australia were represented, has resulted in a partial agreement. Broadly speaking, South Australia is j to be allowed to carry out storage works ! at Lake Victoria, in New South Wales j for navigation purposec at her own expense and to lock her own portion of the river, but New South Wales and Victoria do not recognise her claim of navigation in i»ny way, and do not bind themselves to deliver any quantity of water at the point of intake into South Australia. New South Wales transfers Lake Victoria, with certain watercourses and laiidu adjoining tentatively to South Australia. A stipulation it, made that the agreement does not prejudice any claim to the reasonable use by New South Wales of the waters of the River Murray or its tributaries. ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19, 24 January 1911, Page 7
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