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Page 37
... Bunbury is completed there will be a second line running parallel with a great portion of the Great Southern Railway , and between it and the coast . The whole of the intervening country to the westward will thus be opened up and given ...
... Bunbury is completed there will be a second line running parallel with a great portion of the Great Southern Railway , and between it and the coast . The whole of the intervening country to the westward will thus be opened up and given ...
Page 38
... Bunbury Railway on the west . Under these regulations the terms to purchasers were made very easy with a view of inducing settlers to take up and work the land , leases being granted for twenty - one years , subject to the nominal rent ...
... Bunbury Railway on the west . Under these regulations the terms to purchasers were made very easy with a view of inducing settlers to take up and work the land , leases being granted for twenty - one years , subject to the nominal rent ...
Page 134
... Bunbury and Vasse are alike in some respects , but differing materially in others ; both are seaport towns , and both the seat of considerable dairying operations . The Vasse may be described as a belt of rich swamp deposit placed ...
... Bunbury and Vasse are alike in some respects , but differing materially in others ; both are seaport towns , and both the seat of considerable dairying operations . The Vasse may be described as a belt of rich swamp deposit placed ...
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