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IN HUDSON BAY, WINNIPEG’S DREAM. REALISED AT LAST. United Pres* Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) -United Service) Received 11.15 a.m. to-day. VANCOUVER, March 31. Winnipeg is about to realise a fifty-year-old dream of its own seaport with the completion of a railway to Fort Churchill, on Hudson Bay. It is expected that 30,000,000 bushels of wheat will be shipped annually to Liverpool by this route during the three months in which the bay is sufficiently free from icebergs to permit steamers to reach the. Atlantic.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1929, Page 5
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89PORT OF ITS OWN Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1929, Page 5
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