COST OF CANBERRA.
£10,500,000 SPENT TO DATE. £750,000 FOR PARLIAMENT HOUSE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) CANBERRA, April 28. It is officially announced that the total expenditure to date for the whole of the activities in the Federal Capital territory is £10,500,000. Parliament House has cost- £750,000. Canberra has been built on such a large scale that it will be many years before sufficient revenue to meet the interest bill can lie expected.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 7
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