INLAND AUSTRALIA.
NEW RAIL LINK. INSURANCE AGAINST DROUGHT LOSSES. • SYDNEY, Aug. 4. A big deputation is to wait on the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) in Bris-bane,-next week ,to urge the case for the extension of the railway from Bourke (New South Wales) through Southern and Central Queensland, to link up with the North-South transcontinental line now being built. Eor the last thirty years this great rail link ha# been advocated strongly by representative New Sotuli Wales graziers, and there is reason to believe that the Queensland graziers are just as strongly in favour of it. The indications. it is understood, are that New South Wales will extend the line from Bourke to the Queensland border, if the- Queensland Government will do its part. The chief arguments in New South Wales in favour of the line are that it will he a most valuable insurance iagainst drought in both States, and that it will facilitate the transport of store stock from ono State to tbe other, be a safeguard against acute fat stock scarcity in Svclney or Melbourne. make for safer land settlement in both States, speed up pastoral devokvnment in the Northern Territorv. and tend to increase and maintain Australia’s pastoral production.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 8
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202INLAND AUSTRALIA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 8
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