"HALF AMERICAN"

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 January 1929, Page 2

"HALF AMERICAN"

IMPRESSIONS OF SYDNEY.

ALWAYS MOTORING

SYDNEY, Jainuary 10

lb lias often been suggested that Sydney Is. irapidly becoming Ameriv winked. Travellers 'returning iWmi abroad] frequently lii.nt/ at this, and some havo gone s 0 far as U« sjiy that Sydney is moro New York than any other city in the world—and tlio roinark is not always mount toi he eomplimentalHy. Ou this subject the most o-utspoko.ii comments have been nuulo by Don Manuel do Knnffivilly Mio, the rnmmandor of the Spanish training ship, Juan Sebastian do FJcano.

"I havo spent most of my time on travelling by (motor ear" h(o said the other day, when asked for his impression of to mo that everyciio in Sydney does tllo same. Motoring, alwav* motor, ing. 1 am asked to go ta the hoaoh. They put me in a motor ear, and they take me away to a head, many miles away, ' am asked to go toi Hose] Bay, Again fcl am put intw a motor car, and I find that Bosel Bay is only fciiir miles from the city. ?• am asked

to visit Katoomba, in yiour Imoi**-/ lains. To my surprise, I find that I', musb travel by mcitor car 180 miles. You. people seem to thiol; that 180 miles is nothing—noilhing! can one exist hero if he dees not got a motor carp I think that everyone wfllo lives here should ho presented with a motor ear by your Government, else lie waste half his life going hero three miles and there foul miles by tram or bus. One day I' hope to walk up ami down your streets and see your shops. lam tired of the motors. They are everywhere." "Then, yc»i haven*!, ri'deu, in our trams?" he was asked. "No, no; they seem like, all other trams. I have noticed also, in pass. in. l /, your high buildings—your high American buildings. All! I hale Lhd American skyscraper. Yon like them yourself?"

The interviewer ndmiTte7T""hat I hey had pertain attractiveness in their own way.

"Ah! You seer 1 Yon like thorn hocauso, living here, yon have hecomo half. American. In Melbourne i| is so different. There the. people are purely TCnglish."