RESTRICTIONS MAKE SYDNEY OVERSIZED GAOL
Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, June 19. Following tlie comments of the Lord Mayor of Melhourne who said fcliat that citv was more like a village of a hundred years ago, the president of the City of Sydney Organising Committee (Mr Ernest Turnhull) said that lack of amenities and superahundance of restrictions had turned Sydney into an oversized gaol. He claimed that Sydney people were treated like criminals and observed that ' ' even if we put up with this treatment we should not expect overseas visitors to do so." He described Sydney 's trams as "gloomy juggernauts physically dangeroiis to pregnant women, iuvalids ' and old people. They are antiquated rattletraps which tourists would "expect to see in a museum, not on city streets. ' ' Mr. Turnhull attacked early closing and the lack of courtesy in cafes and the low standard of hotel accommodation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1947, Page 5
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