The advance Australia

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N 059.4 ADV
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Melbourne : F. Davison, 1897-
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Vol. 15 No. 02 (14 Feb 1911)
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THE  

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA  

Registered at the General Post Office, Mom.  

for transmission hy Post as Newspaper.  

VOL. XV., No. 2.  

FEBRUARY 14, 1911.  

 

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ports on any matters of interest to the Association.  

Such reports require to be disseminated through the  

branches in every part of Australia for the benefit of  

our great organisation. We will, therefore, gladly  

receive and insert them if space will permit.  

SPECIAL NOTICE TO BRANCHES.  

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news and reports of branch meetings. This will  

tend to keep the members more in touch with each  

other, and promote friendly intercourse in manner  

that must be beneficial to the Association.  

AUSTRALIA’S GREATEST  

INTERNAL QUESTION.  

“ An Article of A.N.A. Faith.”  

To country subject to periodical visita-  

tions of drought the question of the con-  

servation of water becomes to all intelligent  

citizens an intensely serious study. It is  

practical proposition for practical minds to  

consider and determine,  

“ Content if something from our hands have  

power  

To live, and act, and help the future hour.”  

survey of the Murray waters ques-  

tion should convince every patriotic citi-  

zen that resolute, persistent action is  

necessary to bring the Governments of  

the three riparian States interested into  

agreement. This has been attempted in  

the past, but all attempts have so far  

resulted in dismal failure.  

When the late Hugh M'Coll went to  

Bendigo in 1857 as commercial travel-  

ler, the great need for the conservation  

of the sparse waters of the north of Vic-  

toria impressed him vividly, and many  

were the efforts he made to get dams  

constructed to give the miners of those  

days supply of water. He was mainly  

instrumental in having the Coliban  

Reservoir built, and M'Coll and his  

canals became household word through  

Northern Victoria. Like all pioneers of  

great movements, he had many oppo-  

nents with the hollow laugh that speaks  

the vacant mind. The subject of the  

ownership of the Murray waters, their  

reasonable use, and just apportionment  

to secure the greatest good for the great-  

est number, has been considered, debated,  

and sheaves of declaratory resolutions  

passed almost yearly since 1857. In  

1884 Royal Commission was appointed  

in New South Wales, under the presi-  

dency of Mr. (now Sir) Wm. J. Lyne,  

“ to make diligent and full enquiry into  

the best methods of conserving the rain-  

fall, and of searching for and developing  

the underground reservoirs supposed to  

exist in the interior of that colony, and  

also into the practicability, by general  

system of water conservation and dis-  

tribution, of averting the disastrous con-  

sequences of the periodical droughts to  

which the colony is from time to time  

subject.”  

In 1886, under the presidency of the  

Honourable Alfred Deakin, M.P., Vic-  

torian Royal Commission created new  

interest in irrigation, which led to greatly  

increased activity. In the same year two  

conferences were also held between the  

Royal Commissions of New South Wales  

and Victoria.  

series of ten resolutions concerning  

the Murray waters was agreed to. We  

quote one, perhaps the most important, to  

show the utter contempt displayed to-  

wards the South Australian settlers on  

the River Murray.  

“ That the whole of the waters of the  

Upper Murray and its tributaries, and  

the whole of the waters of the Lower  

Murray shall be deemed to be the com-  

mon property of New South Wales and  

Victoria.  

“And, subject to the reservation of  

such compensation water as the trust  

may from time to time determine, each  

of the said colonies shall have the right  

to take and divert one-half of such waters  

at such point or points as may, at the  

sanction of the trust, be fixed on.as most  

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