Re: Official launch in Bendigo of restored Sydney tram R 1808

[Ian Jelf <ian@bluebadge.demon.co.uk>]

In article <3a4d599f@news.iprolink.co.nz>, David McLoughlin <davemcl@NO*
**damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> writes
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>> But, apparently, Sir Henry Bolte, would have nothing of it.
>
>Bolte was around even then? Good lord. He hated trams, despised them. At
>least he didn't have the power to have them axed, he just starved the
>independent tramways board of capital.
>
>It sickened me when the new bridge over the Docklands was named after
>him.
Does S8ir Robert Risson have anything named in *his* honour?
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