TODD, Charles

Adelaide and Port Darwin Telegraph. Report by C. Todd ... on the Construction and Completion ...

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1873.

Foolscap folio, 7 pages.

Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where sewn when bound (now disbound); an excellent copy.

South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 29 of 1873. An 'official and emphatic denial' of statements disparaging the stability of the line. 'I have, therefore, drawn up a brief report on the whole of the line ... Having personally inspected the line from Daly Waters southwards in the course of my overland journey, as well as portions of the line at Port Darwin and Southport, I am able to speak from personal knowledge'. McLaren 16107.

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