. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . i in die (>i»ini(.n of many ex-perienced men. the system of road-makinu adi»|ilid hy the Board, in-volving, as it does, an expenditure of over £2000 a mile, is too costly forthe needs of tliis distiicl. They poini out that, althoniih the conditions
. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . i in die (>i»ini(.n of many ex-perienced men. the system of road-makinu adi»|ilid hy the Board, in-volving, as it does, an expenditure of over £2000 a mile, is too costly forthe needs of tliis distiicl. They poini out that, althoniih the conditions ofthe settlers on the highly improved main road^ are greatly improxcd. lh<»sesituated even a comparatively r,hort distance from these main thoronghfaresare little hetter otl than hefore, for the reason that the roads from theii pi-o-perties are in snch a deploral)le condition as to pre\ent \-ehicnlar li-a(lic to themain roads during the Wintei- season. Thev consider that (hei-e is no pro-spect of improvement on sifle , as the i cy lo he proxideij hy ihe shires foi- maintenance on the main roads already t;d<en oxer, if the |»rc--entsystem of constiaiction he maintained, will al)Sorh a !;iri:i piopoil ion ol lliemunicipal fund. Tt is proposed hy the PjoW-er (loxernmenl to inlroilnci a 422 THE COUNTRY AS IT IS, wo-\tha(;gi. Wonthaggi is sitiiatfil at the terminus of the railway line from Xyora, S(i miles fromCoal Mine, which was developed in ]90ri to make good a shortage of coal caused by a coalthe plains between the forest country and the coast. It possesses a municipal hall, post andState Savings Banks), four hotels, a court house, two newspapers, besides theatres, skatingHollins, an early settler, at £15 per acre. The annual municipal valuation (1918) is £21,740. Bill to provide £500,000 for subsidiary roads, the Premier stating-, in refer-ring to the proposal, on February 5th. 1918. that the Country Eoads BoardAct has not given that assistanc
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