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Railway Facilities.
The Merredin "Mercury" is souring
on its losal member. Merredin, it says
ought to be the largest railway jnnctiuu
in Australia, but it isn't. The railway
slaff lives in a lew dogknnels erected
on the platform, with the resn'it that
officers are always discontented and
often b;eak down in hcail'i. There
ara no seats for the public, no provision
is uiade for women aud children,
and the refreshment station isn't big
enough to swing a cat in. This,, notwithstanding
that Aterrediu is a connecting
station for settlers bound for
Perth or Kalgooriie, while settlers are
compelled to wait for hours in the
middle of the night. Worse still,
railway construction is at a standstill,
and tiial surveys have been run out
from all sorts oi bu:>h hamiets with the
idea of depriving Merredin of its
natural trade. ITor want of railway
facilities hundreas ot settlers Hive
abandoned their holdings, In the
Lake Brown area four jr live years ago
thera - were 150 settlers farming
150,000 acres of land. To-day the
only y^'ii;s of life at Lake Brown are
rahb' .s .r.il The local
jouioal blames Harrison for this
gloomy state of aU-tirs, aui sigha for
h I --you days of Tommy Bath, when
loa u moiies' was being distributed at
the rate of three millions a year, and
sl'> in the puciiets of the people,
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