NORTHERN TERRITORY.
TROUBLES OF THE SETTLERS. A. and N.Z.' POST DABTO*. Jan. 21. The Port Darwin Town Council lias asked the North Australia Commission to cancel the existing coastal shipping contract and withdraw the subsidy paid to the company. ' It contends that this subsidy should be spent on making roads.' The council says settlers and miners along the coast are being starved out, that their produce is going to waste, and that, despairing of the long-awaited arrival of a ship with supplies, pastoralists have procured motorlorries and cut roads, through the rough country at their own expense. The council has. asked the Commission to- fiobb these roads and to make the settler# independent of shipping.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 9
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