BOURNE TO DARWIN
PROPOSED RAILWAY REPORT REGARDED WITH SCEPTICISM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 20. (Received January 21, at 10.25 a.in.) For the past three months reports have been trickling into London of an Australian plan, with English backing to the extent of £15,000,000, to build a railway from Bourke to Darwin. These reports are now appearing mwe circumstantially, but Press Association inquiries in well-informed quarters indicate that tho proposals are regarded here with the utmost scepticism, the authorities asking how, with the present prices of meat, anyone could expect such a developmental scheme to pay.
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Evening Star, Issue 21316, 21 January 1933, Page 13
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96BOURNE TO DARWIN Evening Star, Issue 21316, 21 January 1933, Page 13
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