THE "BOOM" IN SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1598, 15 November 1912, Page 7

THE "BOOM" IN SYDNEY.

' • NOIv-EXISTBNT NOW. . "Nsw South .Wales is in for a bad time," remarked Mr. John Fuller, jtin., ■ wlio returned front a visit to Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbit.no , yesterday. He Stated that the boom, which was en. a while ago, is all gonej and tilings are generally slftw* ■ Talkhiß Oμ livunicrpal matters, Mr. Fuller said that the awkward higli- Step on the. ,ti'ams prevails in Brisbane. Tlie centre post on the tram tracks in Sydney ard Bri.sb.ane has be<ni doiie away witli, and people can got oif of on the cf.ra cii either side. Mr. Fuller said tbflt he is more jileaseij wit'' the style and jnotlel of the Wellington tl'aws, tind, us. rfir as Menu sh-eets aye concerm*], he considers ■\VtHington is very much ahead of the tities which he visited. , "They nvo eveii tnllcing- in Bnislwne," continued Mr. I'liller, "of intrtiiluciiiK ft. sj'steiii." Jlr. Fuller said tlie iiinnic.iiHtl fish kct*in Sydney is not a (Jityljig- cniiffni,, owing , to the fact or' n eojiiiietincr ivitsi'ket l>y privntc enterprise. It .sti'uclt him very forejiilj', that there is a great tiwjiing aii the four centres of Now Zealand for the tiovcritinoiit to attaolv markets to its railway system, which' wbuld he a great benpn't to the- country, wd it would also bo it biff factor towards'obtaining cheap food'. He with uiat'keb at tho principal stoldons in the four centres, . fwmeis could send tlieif jjopds down, in the train, and they could be Bold iranicdiately upon the. arrival of tho trains, in the- same way us fish is <!oalt with'. Itesrarding the picture show business, Mr. Fuller, said that in Hie towns he ■ visited it seems tp Lβ a case rf tTie eur■viyai of the fittest. Some, rf the j4ctnp& shows have closed their iloora in , Melbourne, and the eawe has hiippeiied in Sydney. . . .