A QUAINT PLACE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1932, Page 6

A QUAINT PLACE.

OTTAWA THROUGH AUSTRALIAN SPECTACLES. SYDNEY, Sept. 1. Mr T. Charrington, a Sydney journalist who travelled with the Ottawa delegation from Australia sends the following interesting pen points of the city where the vital conference was Iheld. Ottawa is a quaint place. There are no rails to houses, which are built three feet above the ground, to keep out the cold. . , , Tram fares are dropped in glass boxes at the end of the car as the passengei enters. All traffic is to the right. Most men wear straw hats, and suburban girls sport pyjama suits in the streets in the evenings. Men committing a motor offence fox the first time are given a “warning card. ” There are no hotels. Liquor licences are sold to those who need them fox two dollars. In Hull, seven miles from Quebec I the merry parties are held. It is daylight until 10 p.m. There are no beggars in the streets. The national flower is the maple, and the national anthem, “O Canada.’ There are no street verandahs, on account of snowfalls. Cigars are rotten, but cigarettes are better. There are no dogs. Races are held occasionally, , and weights are given out in pounds—no stones. There are about 150 reporters here. Arrangements have been made to* let them have whisky. Thy get it from the porter in the Press cents a nip, but it is a good oneequal to four in Sydney.,