PROFESSOR GILRUTH.
ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 15, 1 a.m. Melbourne, February 14. Professor Gilruth, of the Melbourne University, has been appointed Administrator of the Northern Territory.
The ex-New Zealander who has obtained this extremely important appointment recently undertook the exploration of much of the vast territory which he is to administer. His reports disproved all fornjer contentions,- and he showed that' art enormous proportion of the great land ..wa's fertile Watered, full of minerals and. aboundihg every conceivable kirid of wealth. -The!
rritory is square miles Vug, or •nut seven times the size of !New 2ea- . id. It is practically uninfcauitcd, axpt that there are minor sett'. jni«nts of white people —most of whom are huntei s, small groups of Chinese (who consort with the blacks) and an unkniT.i population of blacks, estimated various]v at fiom 50,000 to 100,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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144PROFESSOR GILRUTH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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