SETTLEMENT PLAN
(Press Assn. — •
GREAT PROSPECTS IN THE KIMBERLEY DISTRICTS
By Telegraph — Copyr ight).
(Rec. 11.10 p.m.) London, July 25. The Morning Post gives proininence to the first of a series of articles in which Sir James Connolly, former Australian Minister and Agent-Gen-eral, outlines an ambitious plan for settlement at Kimberley in the. northern portion of West Australia. This territory, having an area of lltj square miles is described by the writer as a "no-iiiah's land of infinite promise eq'ually as habitable as the southern wheat belt." He states that it is splendidly watefed ahd will grow fruit, fubber, sugaf-'eane, cotton and vegetables while there are. deposits of up to 90 .million toiis of pure iron ore. He estimates that "a population of up to 5.0.0,000 could he .supported in .eomfort and that the total cost of the schemes including the construction of an access railway, ' would be six million I pounds.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 593, 26 July 1933, Page 5
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152SETTLEMENT PLAN Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 593, 26 July 1933, Page 5
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