PRESS RELEASE FROM LES JOHNSON,  M.H.R. FOR HUGHES,   OPPOSITION WHIP, 2 Boyle Street,  Sutherland, 521 6262.

13th July.

The N.S.W. Government is to hand over more than

16,300 hectares of land to the Commonwealth for

defence purposes.

In a transfer to the State Government, the Commonwealth

will hand over about 328 hectares of land at Holsworthy

for urban purposes.

Mr Les Johnson, M.H.R. for Hughes and Opposition Whip,

announced these transfers this week after receiving Â·

advice from Mr J. E. (IcLeay, Minister for Administrative

Services. Ã¢ÂÂ

The transfers are part of the land exhange between

the State and the Commonwealth.

The freehold of some 13,600 hectares already

being used for defence purposes under permissive occupancy

will be transferred to the Commonwealth.

Part of the area will form a buffer zone for the Atomic

Energy Commission1s nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights.

About 2833 hectares at Beecroft Peninsula will be

transferred to the Commonwealth for defence purposes also.

It has been leased for some years to the Commonwealth for

defence purposes.

