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Page 4
... government asked Clarke , who was resting in the midland village of Green Ponds , to report on the auriferous districts of the island . Clarke was in poor health and refused . Two years later he declined an invitation to become Government ...
... government asked Clarke , who was resting in the midland village of Green Ponds , to report on the auriferous districts of the island . Clarke was in poor health and refused . Two years later he declined an invitation to become Government ...
Page 111
... Government should monopolize the copper - fields with its own lines . He urged his Minister to halt the Emu Bay railway at Rosebery before it began to compete with the government railway . He even suggested that the Government should ...
... Government should monopolize the copper - fields with its own lines . He urged his Minister to halt the Emu Bay railway at Rosebery before it began to compete with the government railway . He even suggested that the Government should ...
Page 269
... government refuses to build a railway , the citizens of Queenstown should secede from Tas- mania and become part of the Federal Territory . " Although few people supported this threat , the storm of protests forced the gov- ernment to ...
... government refuses to build a railway , the citizens of Queenstown should secede from Tas- mania and become part of the Federal Territory . " Although few people supported this threat , the storm of protests forced the gov- ernment to ...
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