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TURNING FIRST SOS AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE, (Received This Morning 12.33 o'clock.) ADELAIDE, September 15. Port Augusta Is 011 fete for tho turning of tho first sod of the TransCDiit:nent:'l railway to Kalgoorlie. Tho line is estimated to cost £4,000,000. There is a great influx of Federal and other Parliamentarians and distinguished visitors. Accommodation is overtaxed, and thi? Parliamentarians slept in tent?. Lord Denman, in performing the ceremony road a message from the Tvmg expressing, "His keen sense of importance in this great and national enterprise of my people in the Commonwealth." Another message was read from tho Imperial Government stating that it was convinced the great undertaking would redound to the strategic and commercial advantages of Australia. Felicitous speeches wei'e made hy Lord Denman. Admiral Bosanquet, the Hons. A. Fisher," King, G'Malley, G. F. Pearce and "others. Mr King O'Malley characterised the event as one of the supreme occasions which were prophetic of Australia's future greatness, not in mammoth fighting machines on land and sea. or aerial instruments of destruction. Australia, he said, placed lier hopes in unhampered political and; social process. The great Christian party to which he belonged" was determined to afford every pfcrson an opportunity to. make tfye building of the railway an outward expression of the Government's inward ambition.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10711, 16 September 1912, Page 5
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221RAILWAY SCHEME Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10711, 16 September 1912, Page 5
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