NORTHERN TERRITORY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5

NORTHERN TERRITORY

PROPOSED EXPENDITURE By Telegraph—Prce-s AesomUon—'Oopyriffbt • . Melbourne, Juno 20. . A report tabled in the Federal Hquee of Representatives dealing . with '$io Northern Territory, states that development must for ii. time involve a drain on this jPiimiri-.es <Jf fille Commonwealth: without a direct return. Its relation to the matters of defence! and tiro maintwice of a. White Australia suggests tho lWe&ssJfcj- jtistiticatioii foi i espftnsliti.ro during the earlier year;; beiiig determined !i.v other than purely commcfcia! considerations. The rC'Swri; tiroes the necessity or ti border lines policy, the -development, including proposed cxte.ttsivtt railway construction, embfafirng a branch lino to Queensland, altogether involving an out sly of toll millions. Other proposals, include the sinking . of boras, experimental farms:-, and other methods of prenwtir.g the settlement of large areas described jvs being excellent and gracing purposes. The 'aboriginal pupqiittiotn is nmted at Iroro twenty to iwenty-five thou sum!. The .report «a.yfi -the object, of the policy must be to 'interfere as little as possible with tribal areas and , relations. ..