EVENTFUL YEAR COMING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 17

EVENTFUL YEAR COMING.

NEW SOUTH WALES PROGRESS WHAT 1930 MAY SEE. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SYDNEY. Sept. 1. The year 1930 promises to be one of the most eventful epochs in the history of New South Wales. It will mark, in all probability,/the opening of the Empire Exhibition in Sydney, the simultaneous completion of the giant harbour bridge and the city underground railway and the arrival in Sydney of the first of the luxurious airship liners, in the air service between England and Australia. . The completion" of the second biggest dam in the world, with a water area about four or five times that of Sydney Harbour, is another work likely to be completed in 1930 I'hiS is what is known as tlie Hume dam, which will be ready foy [:•::!tivl use even before 1930 The pur I i' work unmanly is to I a '#r.i 'i tor maintaining the flow >" Mii.rav Hivei during dry } Is mV-idnted alsf that the 1" -ii-hemi' which will be in £ •• " -ijnnK . hpiir, manufacturing s ,; ' i><)we. for all the towns and m N <»w South Wales and the n ' o.irtns ,vs tntp of Victoria, within a r ' • 'OO- ci! 1.50 miles of the resor !• n-i?! ondonbtedlv lie a great tourist . resort since the valley of the Mur»r,y ; ( i this point reveals some of the rnost beautiful countrv in Australia.