BURRINJUCK DAM
URGE SIM IO BE SPENT WITHOUT INQUIRY.
LIVES AT STAKE, SAYS MINISTER.
SYDNEY, March 2. When members of the Legislative Assembly complained that £1,850,90( was to be spent on repairs to the Burrinjack dam without a public inquiry, the Minister of Transport, Mr. M. F. Buxner, said that the matter was urgent because not only the livelihoods, but the lives of many people were at stake. The water impounded in the dain was said to be equal to that in Sydney harbour and one could hardh
imagine what would happen if sucl • a vast volume of water were suddenly released.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 14
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102BURRINJUCK DAM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 14
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