A DESERT TRANSFORMED.
Canon Parfit, speakng at the Kings;way Hall, said that he had practically transformed, the Sinaitic Desert for thie first time m history- into something like a habitable laud. "I anticipate the day," he said, "when the Cape to Cairo railway will pass right across the/ desert to Jerusalem . and up ..to. _Alep.pp,.,thencQ . tp . be. joined to the trunk routes to Europe and Asia. We shall m due course change at Aleppo for Petrograd, Paris, India, Australia, the Cape, .and London." MEDALS FOR SHIP WORKERS. ' NEW YORK, -July 3. At the launching of two. wooden ships of 3,500 tons capacity at Kearny, the United States Shipping Board inaugurated its new. system of distributing decorations ■ for- war , service to , shipbuilders. Within a square of troots 86 men who distinguished themselves by their industry lined' "Up m; two ranks. Amid the Gheers of 8.000 spectators a medal Was pinned oil", the breast of each man. ',-. .-.,-..; . :,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14703, 7 September 1918, Page 9
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155A DESERT TRANSFORMED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14703, 7 September 1918, Page 9
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