HUSTLING SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 6 January 1912, Page 4

HUSTLING SYDNEY.

ME. H. F. ALLEN'S OBSERVATIONS

Mr. H. F. Allen, secretary of the Weilington Industrial Association, has returned from a six weeks' visit to Sydney and Melbourne. With others \vho'hav» visited the other side recently, Mr. Allen was amazed at the wonderful evidences of prosperity observable on all hands in Australia. When he was there several builders with big contracts on their hands were stuck up for want of labour. Bricklayers were in eager demand at 14s, per day, and not obtainable at that, and there was work in plenty for carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, ami stone, masons. The Government Tramways Department were advertising at evc-ry slopping place for conductors at good rates of ray: Engineering was going at top. The day ho visited Mort's Dick there were five steAmers undergoing repairs, and several vessels—wooden, iron, and stra (two guuboats for tl'.c Comnnnwralth Navy among the latter—were in course of construction. ■ ■ * Wlnle in Sydncv- at Christmas time h# paid a visit of -inspection to A net's bread factory, ah enormous concer.t where every bit of the work is done by machinery Mr. Abel informed the visitor that though 1 the machinery had only been up about tiirco years, naiyono could have it for tho prico of scrap iron—he was going to ljundio it all out to make way for electrical machinery. While Mr. Allen was there lie was. informed that tho work of the day was two hours behind owilig to a broken shaft, and when the accident occurred there were no less than IS3 sacks of floilr on the boards. ChristmM cn-kefi and small goods were being turned out by the. thousand, and a busy-packing deportment was attending to their dispatch. Abel's carts were everywhere alxrat Sydney and suburbs, but still any man could drive up to the bakehoilse and get a load ol' bread (for spot cash) and vend it where and how he liked.

Mr. Allen board the Melba Oiiera Company, Ren Davios in ''The Messiah," and J. C. Williamson's latest musical comedy success, "The Gil'] in tho Train." When in Melbourne lie "struck if 9S in th® shade, with a high hot wind, which h<t liUenc<l to t\ 1)1 iist from a furnace. 1T« was in Sydney when the New Zealand elections were on, and testifies, that tin Dominion's big colony in that city vrcro intensely interested in the results.