THE FRENCH VIEW
AUSTRALIA AS PYHIBS SEE IT. THOSE ANIMALS ! The publicity which Australia secures iji France ranges from the perfqrmanqes of racing cyclistq to S^ch matter as the following, from "L'Ami du Peuple," a widely circulated journal owiied by the scent manufacturer, M. Coty: — ■ "Deserted Gapital — -here is sometbiug which is not banal. It is the position of Canberra, capital of Australia, constructed in the desert and inaugurated with great pomp. "Cariberra is the'seat 6f the Federal Goverhment, but apart from several thousand functionaries obliged to live there it has not qn inhabitant. "The' Government has decided not to put into exeqution projects of aggrajidisement and emhellishmept, which haye been s£opped, and the works abapdoned. "The puhlic gardens ure not kept up, and- the only yisitors qre multitudes of anim^ °I all kinds, which havq fopnd agrgeqblp thereih. "The expi'anation of this abandonment is .simplest to those knowing the manners and tqstes of Australians, wbQ lpv® either thg intepse nojse of Melbourne and Sydney or the absqlut.e calin. 8^4 solitude- of a ranch. Canberra reipaips q deserted capital until great changes, impossible tq prophecy, occur in Australia."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 19, 15 September 1931, Page 5
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