NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1927, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

EVENTFUL 1930. * SYDNEY, Sept. 1. The year 1930 promises to he one of the most eventful epochs in the history of New South Wales. It will mark, in all' probability, the opening of the Empire Exhibition in Sydney, the simultaneous completion of the giant harbour bridge, and the city underground railway. The arrival in Sydney of the first of the luxurious airship liners, in the air service bcm tween England and Australia, and the completion of the second largest dam in the world, with'U| water area about f<ms or five times ‘flint of Sydney Har■'hour. This is what is known as the Hume dam, which will be ready for partial use even before 1930. The purpose of this great work, primarily, is to provide storage for maintaining the ' flow- in the lower Murray river during dry yenrs. It is calculated also that the liydro-eVectric scheme which will bo installed will supply cheap manufacturing and domestic power for all the towns and settlements in New South Wales, and the neighbouring States of \ Victoria, within a radius of 100 or 150 ' miles of the reservoir. It will undoubtedly be a great tourist resort, since the valley of the Murray at this point reveals some of the most beautiful country in Australia.