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RAIL STNAD'. T0 T PREBt. KNFL
Sttmnb h rm ise c R. G. Men zies
Following is the ' ext of a 1. etter which I wrote
on 3rd Au~ gust to the Honourable SiLr Thomas P" Layford,
Premier of South Australia 9 on the subject of standardization
of the raiiigay betwMeen Port Pirie and Broken Hill
" Dear Sir Thomas, In your letter of 2nd April, 1 962 you invited
the Commonwealthi to consi. der approlving under the
Railway S4tan'qardizatien Agreement of-1949,-a programme_
of conversion to standard gauge of the permanent way