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NORTHERN TERRITORY PROPOSAL. By Cable—Press Association— Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. DARWIN, January 21. The Town Council has asked til# North Australia Commission to cancel the coastal shipping contract, and withdraw the subsidy paid to the company, which should be spent on making roads. The Council pointed out that settlers and miners along the coast are being starved out—that produce is going to waste—that despairing of waiting 'tlio arrival of a ship with supplies, pastoral<sts had procured motor lorries and cut roads through rough country at their own expense.
The Council asked the Commission to finish these roads, thus making seltlm? independent of shipping.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 January 1927, Page 9
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