THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1926, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

SVDNEI. Sydney is third only to London and Glasgow iu the “white” cities of the Empire, and is the twentieth city of the whole world in point of population, even when all the older capitals of Europe and America and the Eastern nntheaps of humanity are included. It is an amazing record; hut to tho many who have watched almost with awe the rate of our city’s growth, made visible in scaffoldings arid 'cranes during the quarter of a centtli'y which ends shortly, the record is understandable. As an exhibition of steady, healthy civic advance it can have been rareiy matched; and with the enormous increase in motor traffic which those years have also witnosed, and the subjugation of time and distance which that increase coniiotes, there appears to he no reason why trie advance should not continue with cveii greater celerity. Whether Sydney’s present niagnitude, or future growth, be a good thing, socially and politically, for the State, it is not our present province to discuss. We are content just now to take the matter as it stands; In glory just a little in our greatness, and to march among the ranks or those- who boast that they, too are citizens of no mean city. - ”