THE FEDERAL CAPITAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 258, 24 October 1908, Page 4

THE FEDERAL CAPITAL

ass is jubilant over the selection of Vass-Canberra for the Eederal capital. 1 The Mayor I Alderman Bradford) slated that from the beginning he had little doubt as to the ultimate result. The summing up of the various rival sit.'* was so strongly iu favour <jf Vnss, it seemed only a mailer ol' time tor the liulh and liU'l> brought out I" po-sess the ol U»e legislators; ami even allowing fur a certain amount ol' provincialism. there \va> small douhl, that I tlie patriotic spirit ot the member.?, on! •the whole, would cause the best site toI I>e chosen.

It was evident from Mr. Oliver's report. and from all the fact s that had become known since, that Yass was the best site in point of accessibility. U had all the resources of one of the noblest livers in Australia, the Murruribidgee, and ui>a as an alternative the gravitation scheme, from Mieolong, which olVercd the purest water supply of any city «u Australia, equal to the requirements of IUN.OOO persons in the worst of droughts. The climate was all that could he desired, avoiding the extremes of cold and heat equally. A temperature of 1111 l degrees in the shade was ran l , aiel I the Arctic cold of certain other federal ; sites was unknown. The whole of the medical faculty of Xew South Wahs was aware tliat i ass offered the be-t facilities for the recovery of health, and frequently the Jives of those despair-d of in the moist heat of the coastal districts was restored by the pure mountain air of Yass,

The average rainfall of :ii inches w,insufficient for all purposes, a- irrigation could be availed of from an abundant "water supply. The Barren -lack weir, however, was probably the si longest f;i ;-j tor in the of Yas-. ollering a-J it did unrivalled facilities a> a louri-d; | resort. There was shooting and fishing;! ' trout, cud. and perch were in abundance in the streams of the district; and the} fact of the near future promising a body, of water half as large again as Sydney Harbour eould never be overlooked. As a tourisi and health resort \ass womd | be upon the completion of the weir Ihej first place probably in Australia, andj one of thy very finest in the world.