AUSTRALIA REVISITED

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1931, Page 3

AUSTRALIA REVISITED

EX-G OVER NOR’S OBSERVATIONS

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LONDON, February 27

Lord 'Beauchamp >(ex-Governor of Now South Wales) has many ‘interesting observations to makefin regard to Australia ijr an article die contributes •to the “Empire Review” on “Australia Revisited,” from which the following are extracts: —He says that he “fell in love with Sydney over again.” He continues: “There are more and finer houses, and more and finer streets there now. A skyline has been created. The great harbour bridge enhances the appearance of the city and the harbour by night, and it will remain one of the most 'beautiful sights known. Not another city in the world has such an unspoiled paradise as the Middle Harbour, which is within, six miles of the business point of Sydney. Fortunate are those who live and work within the echo of these incomparable beaut ies.’’ He adds: “The women are beautiful. They walk well, being conscious of their fine figures. The men are .splendid athletes, 'like old Greek statues, with their skins tanned by tho suu and wind, ‘it is doubtful if there anywhere can be found finer specimens of manhood than the Sydney lifesavers. “There has been a wonderful advance in art. The great hall of Sydney University is hardly surpassed by that of any University an the world. The tradition of sound learning is well maintained, and the standard of journalism is a decided improvement on that of last century. The establishment of the Commonwealth has enlarged its statesmanship. Yet every man and woman feels that it has not accomplished all that was expected of it, either politically or in the business world.

“Tho cities of Sydney and Melbourne still go their different ways. The Sydney newspapers have, little, if anything, more about the rest of Australia than they had in the old clays. It is difficult to discuss the political situation, but the confidence and the resources of the people arcundiminished.”

Lord Beauchamp is confident that if the position is -met with determination, prosperity will soon return. He disagrees with the c.ritics (hat the Australian Govetrnor-General’s office had greatly changed since the abandonment of official residence in Sydney and Melbourne, and that much of the interest attaching to the position had disappeared. Canberra was the most beautiful garden city in the world, but at present it is more a /garden than a city.