WHAT 1930 MAY SEE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5180, 19 September 1927, Page 4

WHAT 1930 MAY SEE.

AN EVENTFUL YEAR COMING. NEW SOUTH WALES PROGRESS. Tfee year. 1930 promises to be one of tthe 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, and the arrival in Sydney of the first of the luxurious airship liners in the air service, between England and Australia. The completion of the second biggest dam in the world, with a water area about four or five times that of Sydney Harbour, is another work likely to be completed in 1930. 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 a storage for maintaining the fi’ow in the lower Murray River during dry years. It, is calculated also that the- hydro-electric scheme which will be installed will supply cheap manufacturing and domestic power for all the towns and settlements in New South Wales and the neighbouring State 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 t,he most beautiful country in Australia.