Australia Seeks 10Year Beef Contract With Britain
CANBERRA, Jan. 22. The Australian Government has asked the British Government to agree to take all the surplus beef production at a reasonable price for 10 years before going ahead with plans for the large-scale development of the Northern Territory. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifiey, in announcing this, added that negotiations between the two Governments were .still going on. Plans to develop the Northern Territory as a beef-producing area placed the cost to the Commonwealth at up to £50,000,000, he said. This maximum of £50,000,000 provided for the building of the new railway system to open thousands of square miles of country. The British food mission which visited Australia last year was impressed by the possibilities of the Northern Territory. Mr. Chiefiey said optimists believed that 400,000 tons of beef could be produced there each year after the area had been developed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22852, 24 January 1949, Page 5
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