A FORTUNATE LAND.
JCO THE EDITOR.
Sir, —After forty years’ residence in 'Australia I have at last found the opportunity to visit your beautiful dominion. Like the Queen of Sheba of old, 1 can truly say “ the half was never told.” Not only are your mountains and lakes beautiful and entrancing beyond compare, but your soil and climate seem to me to be far and away I superior to anything we may have in broad Australia, lu favored spots wo have, at favorable seasons, some wonderful crops, but your grass, your clover, your turnips, and other herbage, where was ever such a riot of green wealth? Surely there ought to bo full and plenty for a very large population in such a land! Could we not have some of that seemingly surplus grass growing profusely on your roadsides to feed our starving stock? Knowing something of gold mining, I am persuaded that vast quantities of the precious metal are still to bo had in various places visited. With your vast potential water .power harnessed and utilised, could not cheap power be used for the recovery of much of this
gold and the introduction of new industries? Surely, sir, that ought not to be anyone here looking for work and unable to find it. In conclusion I beg to assert, as one who has travelled over most of the scenic resorts in Australia, that your “ finest walk in the world ” reveals such beauty and grandeur as to be altogether lovely, and properly developed and boosted will eventually bring enough hard cash to pay your national debt.—l am, etc., B. M. Bowie (Sydney). February 21.
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Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 8
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273A FORTUNATE LAND. Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 8
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