"SLEEPY HOLLOWS" TRANSFORMED.

Evening Star, Issue 18669, 25 June 1924, Page 1

"SLEEPY HOLLOWS" TRANSFORMED.

■ '-«&»* GROWTH OF AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES. Rapid development in Australia k cities and towns was noticed by All - Arthur Paapo in tho course of a trip from which lie returned yesterday. In Melbourne and Sydney a groat deal of building was going on, and in the .smaller places there was an activity that one could scarcely credit unless one saw it. It was ton years since be was in Geolong, for example, and in that lime. “ Sleepy Hollow'’ bad boon transformed into a manufacturing centre of brisk motion. A woollen company that bad boon floated was going to erect works there worth a million pounds, and it was bringing out 400 families trom the Old Country as operatives, and erecting houses for them. Ballarat was another example of a town that bad made progress ns a manufacturing centre, and in it there was now a building, in which there were 500 workers, that was tho largest manufactory ol women’s apparel in Australasia, A woman with a sewing machine .started it, 'the moral, in Mr Paapo’s opinion, is that New Zealand's industries will expand to tho same gicn-t extent as (hr. country’s population grows. ■',-V visit u, Australia after a. lapse of a few years gives me great hopes lor Now Zealand's prosperity,” he remarked.