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Show Developing Northern Australia. A largo cold storage works Is to bo erected at Port Darwin, Northern territory, ter-ritory, Australia, by the British Union Cold Storago company; a concesslou for that purpose having recently been signed by tho commonwealth minister for external affairs. Australia has 12,-000,000 12,-000,000 head or cattle, mostly In tho wldo, well-grassed tablelands of tho north, and the erection of local meat works Is tho first step In a great advance- of tho oxport trade, the meat works of Queensland and the southern south-ern parts ot Australia being quite Inadequate In-adequate to deal with tho rapid increase in-crease in the export trade during the paBt few years. Tho news also marks a step In tho development of that vast unpopulated northern area which Australia is determined to keep for tho whlto race. It has long been recognized that tho natural advantages advan-tages of this region mado It especially a pastoral province. The commonwealth common-wealth government announced a few dayB ago that they were preparing to spend $50,000,000 during the nest threo years in railway construction botween Port Darwin and the Interior and the South. |
