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FACILITIES AT SIDINGS.
Work to be Proceeded With.
KATANNING, April 21.-Whle at a
meeting of the No. I Wool Zone Council
of the Primary Producers' Association on
Saturday, the general president of the
association (Mr. J. S. Teasdale) received
a telegram acquainting him of the Gov
ernment's intention to construct the
Bunbury terminal, and take necessary
steps in connection with equipment and
erection of bulk facilities for the recep
tion of the coming season's wheat within
the Bunbury zone.
Mr. Teasdale said that this declaration
cleared the path for Co-operative Bulk
Handling, Ltd., in the matter of provid
ing facilities for the handling of bulk
wheat at selected sidings in the zone,
and such facilities would be placed dur
ing the coming winter at the following
sidings:--Wckepin, Malyalling, Yealer
ing, Stratton, Bullaring, Tinkurin, Bar
rismith, Dudinin, Jitarning, Kulin,
Garning, Kondinin, olling, Ballaying,
Nippering, Wishbone, Moulyinning, Kuke
rin, Lake Grace, Lake Biddy, Newdegate,
Dornock, Kalgarin, Hayden Rock and
Dumbleyung.
He reminded his audience that when
the Co-operative Company was granted
a charter for bulk handling of wheat in
this State, it undertook to provide the
necessary facilities in rotation to the
four zones into which the wheatgrowlng
areas had been divided, namely, Fre
mantle, Geraldton, Bunbury, and Albany.
While the company had in hand the
country installations, the Government,
due to the policy of the State to preserve
for the use of its neople for all time
water-front facilities, retained the right
to erect and control the port terminals.
Through difficulty in respect to finance,
the Government could not proceed with
the work as fast as the company, and this
fact retarded the provision of bulk hand
ling facilities at the ports. However,
Fremantle and Geraldton zones had been
equipped with terminals, and the bulk
system was in vogue throughout those
zones. Now the Bunbury zone was com
ing into line, and he hoped that next
year the Government would be in a
position to make a similar announcement
in respect of Albany terminal, when the
company would immediately proceed
with the provision of facilities at sidings
which already had been selected in the
Albany zone. The terminal elevators
would remain the possession of the
State, but the country equipment being
provided by Co-operative Bulk Handling,
Ltd., eventually would be the property
of those farmers who made use of the
facilities.
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