AUSTRALIAN BORDER TROUBLE.
«_^ — ♦ A DISPUTE SETTLED. ADELAIDE, January 18. 1 At a conference between. Mr Price ( (Premier of South Australia^ and Mr Bent '' (Premier of Victoria) the long-standing dispute regarding the border territory was settled. The -territory involved is -valued at £215,000. Victoria undertakes to pay South Australia half of" this" amount,' and in return, assumes the undisputed possesssion of the territory which she had "held and administered for a long time/ - The boundary line between Victoria- and South Australia, is a geometrical line — the 141 st -parallel "of longitude. This has never ijeenafctaatly, defined \until now. The area. in dispute ""has ' become . -valuable , because-- of . the extension" of. --settlement for agricul1 -tttre and Ifruit-growinp on the banks of the j sJower Murray.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 27
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123AUSTRALIAN BORDER TROUBLE. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 27
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