(Contributed.)
Deo. 14.
Austratia has for long been the home of experiments in so-dalism that older countries have not had the courage or the opportunity to attempt. If these lands realize the result of many of the experiments in the Commonwealth, they will feel only too thankful that their senility or their lack of courage prevented their going in for such undertakings. These experiments have mainly taken the form of State Trading or as they are sometimes called State enterprises, though why they should be known as enterprises is not at all obvious, since enterprise is about the last thing of which those supposed to manage these affairs are guilty.
Each state in the Commonwealth has its own system of rail~ ways under the control of the: State Governor. When these were: built the various governments, were suspicious of each other and the result was that most States adopted a different gauge from that of their neighbours. The result is seen for instance when the
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