AUSTRALIAN RAIL GAUGES
(Rec 12.30 p.m.) Melbourne. This Day Unification of Australian rail gauges in 1901 would have cost only £4.000.000, said Sir Harold Clapp. Commonwealth Transport Director. The cost of the scheme now proposed by the Federal Government is £77.000,000.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 25 June 1945, Page 5
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