IMPRESSIONS OF SYDNEY
ALWAYS MOTORING. SYDNEY, January 10. It lias often lieen suggested that Sydney is rapidly becoming Americanised. Travellers returning from abroad frequently hint at this, and some have gone so far as to say that Sydney is more..like New York than any other city in. the world—and the remark is' v iiot always meant to be complimentary’ On this‘ subject' the most-, outspoken comments; have been made' by Don Manuel. de Mendivil v Elio, the commander of the Spanish training ship, Juan Sebastian de Elciino. “ I have spent most of my time on shore travelling by motor-car,” he said the other day, when asked for his impressions, of Sydney. “It seems to me that everyone in Sydney does the same. Motoring, motoring, always motoring. 1 am. asked to go to the beach. They put me in a motor-car, and they take me away to a beach many miles away. lam asked to go to Rose Bay. Again I am' put into a motor-car, and I find that Rose Bay is only four miles from that city. I am asked to visit Katoomba in your mountains. To my surprise I find that I must travel by motor-car 180 miles. You people seem to think that 180 miles is nothing. How can one dxist here if he does not get n motor-car. I think that everyone who lives here should be presented with a motor-car by your Government, else he wastes half his life going here three miles and there four miles by tram or bus. ‘One day X hope to walk up and down- your streets and see your shops. lam tired of the motors. They are everywhere.” “ Then you haven’t ridden In our trams?” he was asked.
"No, no. They seem like all other trams. 1 have noticed also in passing, your high buildings—your high American buildings. Ah! I bate tne American skyscraper. You like them yourself?”’
The interviewer admitted that they had a certain attractiveness in their own way. *< Ah! You see? You like them because, living here, you have become half American. Everyone in Sydney is half American. In Melbourne -so different. There the people are purely English.”..
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1929, Page 2
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