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Flag Lieutenant: FRED. C. FISHER, R.N. GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMON WEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. Prime Minister and Minister of Easternal Affairs: The Honourable ALFRED DEAKIN, M.P. - P. Treasurer: The Honourable SIR WILLIAM John LYNE, K.C.M.G., M. Minister of State for Trade and Customns : The Honourable AustiN CHAPMAN, M. P. Attorney-General: The Honourable LITTLETON ERNEST GRoom, M. P. Minister of State for Defence: The Honourable Thomas THoytsox Ewing, M.P. Honourable Joiſ N Minister of State for Home Affairs: Senator The HENRY KEATING". Postmaster-General : The Honourable SAAtuel, MAUGER, MI. P Vice President of the Ea:ecutive Council : Senator The Honouralle ROBERT WALLACE BEST. Honorary Minister: The Honourable JAMES HUME Cook, M. P. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Premier, Attorney-General, and Minister of Justice : Hon. CHARLEs - GREgoRY WADE, K.C., M.L.A. Colonial Treasurer : Hon. Thom(As WADoºli, M.L.A. Colonial Secretary and Secretary for Mines : Hon. WILLIAM HERBERT Wood, M.L.A. Secretary for Lands : Hon. SAMURI, Wilkixson Moon E, M.L.A. Secretary for Public Works: Hon. Charlºs ALFRED LEE, M.L.A. * Minister of Agriculture: Hon. Joh N PERRY, M.L.A. | Minister of Public Instruction and Minister for Labour and Industry: s - Hon. JAMES ALEXANDER Hoguk, M.L.A. s Vice President of the Ea:ecutive Council: Hon. John Hughes, M.L.C. Honorary Minister: Hon. JAMEs Ashton, M.L.C. Honorary Minister: Hon. CHARLEs WILLIAM OAREs, M.L.A. 187112 Jº- *-* > ;% Official Committees for the reception and entertainment of the Fleet of the United States of Płmerica at Sydney. Commonwealth : THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MINISTERS OF STATE FOR THE COMMON WEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. Hon. THOMAS BROWN, M.P. \ Hon. A. FISHER, M.P. Hon. HENRY WILLIs, M.P. Dr. FRANK LIDDELI., M. P. Northern Section. JOHN THOMSON, Esquire, M. l’. Senator T. D. C11ATAWAY. Secretary— Senator J. P. GRAY A Mr. J. F. McGUINNESS. Hon. R. A. CROUGH, M.P. N Rt. Hon. Sir John For REST, P.C., G.C.M.G., M.P Hon. W. KNOx, M. P. Senator G. HENDERSON. ^e Southern Section Senator the Hon. J. H. McCOLL. Senator W. H. STORY. Senator E. J. Russki,L, Secretary— Hon. KING O'MALLEY, M. P. J Mr. T. WOOLLARD, Secretary, General Committee Mr. H. H. LEWIS. General Manager—Lieut.-Colonel DAVID M1LLER, I.S.O., W.D. Official Committees—conta. £iem South (ſāāleg. THE PREMIER AND THE MINISTERs of STATE FOR THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Secretary—F. A. Cogili,AN. Government Architect, Y *- in charge of Works, Illumnim- Colonel W. L. VERNoN, F.R.I.B.A. ations, and Decorations: - - - Spöney (litizens. Eacecwtive Conmittee. THE RIGHT Honour ABLE THOMAS HUGHES, M.L.C., Lord MAYor. (Chairman). # º; ºsch, ESQ. }(Hon. Treasurers). - - -- e. y - * , Alderman J. ENGLISH. JULIAN ASHTON, Esq. * 3 G. T. CLARKE. - R. M. McC. ANDERSON, Esq. y y J. LANE MULLINs. (, M.L.C 3 * T. H. KELLY. The Hon. R. J. BLACK, .L.C. 3 x E. W. O'SULLIVAN, C. BENNETT, Esq. M. L.A. J. R. CAREY, Esq. 3 y $. #. J. J. COIIEN, Esq., M.L.A. ... A. j. Rºy, M.L.A. | Sir JAMES FAIRFAX. 3 y E MILNER STEPHEN. J. GREGG, Esq. y 3 & *::::: N H. GoRMAN, Esq. 5 y - = & {ONE. | M. r. ºri Feo y 3 J. H. LAWRENCE. M. GoTTIIELF, Esq. 3 y J. WARD. The Hon. J. GARLAND, M.L.C. y 2 W. º: FITZGERALD. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, M.L.A. 3 y }:* º Sir MATTHSW HARR1s. . A. A. C. Čooks. G. S. LITTLKJohn, Esq. 3 y S. E. LEES. W. ListER LISTER, Esq. , , E. LINDSAY THOMPSON. Sir W. P. MANNING. 3 x R. D. MEAGHRR, M.L.A. A. G. MILSON, Esq. 3 x T. H. BARLOW. P. F. MARICII, Esq. 3 y W.T. Hºssos. A. G. RALSTON, K.C. Mayor of BALMAIN. - F. G. SARGooD, Esq. • { * } GLEBE. J. S. SiłłARSTON, E y 3 MANLY - - . S. SHEARSTON, Esq. . . ) MOSMAN. D. Storey, Esq., M.L.A. 5 y North SYDNEY. The Hon. Sir FRANcis SUTTor, 3 y PADDINGTON. M. L. C ºf The Hon. F. E. WINclicox{BE, 3 * e ~ ,, . WAV ERLEY. ~, M.L.C. » Wool,LAHRA. J. C. WILLIAMSON, Esq. Taoxi.As H. NESBITT (Hon. Secretary). ARTuuR MACARTiltR (Organising Secretary), PARTICULARS OF THE VISITING FLEET. —-)-4- FIRST DIWISION. FLAGSH | P-C O N N ECTICUT. - REAR-ADMIRAL CHARLES S. SPERRY, CoMMANDER-IN-CH (EF. PERSONAL STAFF, CoMMANDER A. W. GRANT, Chief of Staff. - Lºcomºsº RIDLEY McLEAN, A.D.C., Fleet Ordnance Cer. LIEUTENANT.COMMANDER. S. P. FULLINWIDER, A.D.C., Flag Secretary. Lieutenant-CoMMANDER H. I. CONE, Fleet Engineer. LIEUTENANT D. W. WURTSBAUGH, A.D.C., Flag Lieutenant. LIEUTENANT D. A. WEAVER, A.D.C., Fleet Athletic Officer. H'LEET STAFF, PAY INSPECTOR SAMUEL M“GOWEN, Fleet Paymaster. SURGEoN L. W. CURTIS, Fleet Surgeon. MAJoR DIVE WILLIAMS, Fleet Marine Officer. For Temporary Dwty: NAVAL Constructor, L. S. ADAMS. Assist ANT NAVAL Constructor, L. B. M“BRIDE. OFFICERS OF THE FLAGSHIP. CAPTAIN H. OSTERHAUS. COMMANDER L. S. WAN DUZER. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. G. C. 1)AY. . . LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. V. STERLING. . . . CHAPLAIN M. C. GLEESON. KANSAS. CAPTAIN C. E. WREELAND. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER F. ANDREWS. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. W. C. COLE. SURGEON T. W. RICHARDS. PAYMASTER. J. H. MIRRIAM. CAPTAIN MARINEs, A. E. HARDING. s MIN N EsotA. CAPTAIN J. HUBBARD. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER W. G. MILLER. UIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. W. K. HARRISON. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER C. P. JACKSON. SURGEoN W. B. GROVE. PAYMASTER J. S. El-IGGINS: CHAPLAIN S. K. EVANS. . CAPTAIN MARINEs, J. C. BRECKENBRIDGE. PARTICULARS OF THE VISITING FLEET-conta. VERM O N T. &APTAIN W. P. POTTER. LIRUTENANT-CoMMANDER L. C. BERTOLETT. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER A. ALTHOUSE. SURGEON F. M. FURLONG. PAYMASTER. C. S. BAKER. CAPTAIN MARINEs, C. H. LYMAN. SECOND DIVISION. FLAGSHIP--GEORGIA. REAR-ADMIRAL R. WAINW RIG fiT. PERSON A I, STA FF. Aides-de-Camp : FLAG-LIEUTENANT S. C. ROWEN. ENSIGN A. K. ATKINS, A. D.C. OFFICER S. €APTAIN E. F. QUALTROUGH. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. G. W. KLIN E. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. J. F. CARTER. SURGEON R. P. CRIMDALI,. PAYMASTER. R. HATTON. CHAPLAIN C. M. CEIARLTON. CAPTAIN MARINEs, J. C. BEAUMONT. N EBRAS KA. CAPTAIN R. F. NICHOLSON. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. R. E. COONTZ. SURGEON T. A. BERRY HILL. PAYMASTER. J. D. BARBER. FIRST LIEUTENANT MARINEs, F. A. BARKER. NEw JERsEY. CAPTAIN W. H. SOUTHERLAND. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. T. W. HOURIGAN. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. M. H. SIGNOR. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. F. L. SAWYER. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. F. LYON. SURGEON N. W. BLACKWOOD. PAYMASTER. J. R. SANDFORD. -- FIRST-LIEUTENANT MARINEs, W. E. SMITH, PARTICULARS OF THE VISITING FLEET-com/d. R H ODE ISLAN D. CAPTAIN J. B. MURDOCK. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. J. W. OMA N. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. G. N. H. A Y \\ ARD. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER P. BABIN. SURGEON E. P. STONE. PAYMASTER E. E. G()() DHUE. CHAPLAIN J. F. FLEMING. CAPTAIN MARINEs, L. McC. LITTLE. THIRD DIVISION. FLAGsH | P-LOUI SIAN A. REAR-ADMIRAI, W. H. EMERY. PERSONAL STAFF, Aides-de-Camp : FLAG-LIEUTENANT R. W. HENDERSON. LIEUTENANT C. T. HUTCHINS. OFFICERS. CAPTAIN K. K.I LES. - COMMANDER. E. E. CAPEHART. - LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. C. T. JEWELL. SURGEON A. R. W. ENTWO Rºi" ||. - PAYMASTER C. W. Eſ, I AS() N. . CAPTAIN MARINES, J. W. WADLEIGH. - VIRGIN A. CAPTAIN A. SHARP. - LIEUTENANT. CoMMAN DER B. C. DECIXER. - LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. W. D. M. “DOUGALL. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER A. W. HINDS. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. E. L. BENNETT. SURGEON J. B. DENNIS. - & PAYMASTER. D. M. AD DIS() N. CHAPLAIN G. E. T. STEVENS() N. - CAPTAIN MARINEs, R. P. WILLIAMS. • 3. M IS SOUR I. " CAPTAIN R. M. DOY LE. - LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. A. H. SCALES. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. J. H. SYPHER . SURGEON L. W. SPRATLING. & PAYMASTER. W. H. DOHERTY. CAPTAIN MARINEs, J. S. TURRILL. t . łº-º- * * *.. * PARTICULARS OF THE VISITING FLEET-conta. A OH ! O. JAPTAIN T. B. HOWARD. - COMMANDER. W. W. BUCHANAN. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. J. F. HUBBARD. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. H. G. GATES. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. M. L. NULTON. SURGEON W. W. GARTERE. FirsT LIEUTENANT MARINEs, F. S. WILTON. FOURTH DIVISION. FLAGsH 1 P.—WISCONSI N. REAR-ADMIRAI, SEATON SCHRODER. - PERSONAL STA FF. Aides-de-Camp : FLAG-LIEUTENANT T. T. CRAVEN ENSIGN E. E. IVIMMEL. OFFICERS. CAPTAIN F. E. BEATY, LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER B. F. HUTCHINSON LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER C. T. VEGDESDAG. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. D. W. ALLEN. FIRST LIEUTENANT MARINEs, A. P. CRIST. PAYMASTER H. R. INSLEY. | LL | NOI S. GAPTAIN J. M. BOWYER. LIEUTKNANT-CoMMANDER A. T. LONG. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. R. R. DESTEIGNER. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. H. A. PEARSON. PAYMASTEP. G. W. R.E.EVES. CAPTAIN MARINEs, W. HOPKINS. KEA R SARGE. CAPTAIN H. HUTCHINS. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER. N. C. TWINING. LIEUTENANT-CoMMANDER J. W. CHASE. - L1RUTENANT-COMMANDER R. D. HASBROUCK. SURGEoN H. D. WILSON. PAYMASTER H. DEF MEL. ºmnam f • PARTICULARS OF THE VISITING FLEET-confd. KENTUC KY. CAPTAIN W. C. COWLES. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. H. A. WILEY. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. J. K. ROBISON . LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. W. J. TUR.P.I.N. SURGEON A. G. GRUNWELL. PAYMASTER G. G. SEI BELS. - CAPTAIN MARINES, R. C. BERKELEY. FLEET AUXILIARIES. - G LAC I E R. COMMANDER. W. S. HOGG. PANT H E R. CoMMANDER V. S. NELSON. C U LG O A. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. W. B. PATTON. RELIEF-SURGEON C. F. STOKES. COMMANDING-SURGEON A. W. DUN BAR. SUPERVISING-SURGEON F. N. LECAIN. SAILING-MASTER, Y A N KTO N . LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER C. B. M“VEY AJAX (collies), W. S. HUTCHINSON, Master. CIVILIANs Accompanying FLEET. V E R M O N T. E. H. PATCHIN, New York Herald. LOUIS I A NA. F. MATTHEWS, Laffam. Press Association. KANSAS. T. D. WALKER, Special. - GEORGIA. • , H. L. CLOTWORTHY, United Press Association i *|: PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY. THURSDAY. AUGUST 20t H. MORNING. —º-4-- II:30 a.m., Arrival at Port Jackson Heads of the Fleet of the United States of America. Daylight Fireworks Display arranged by the Government of New South Wales. Aquatic Demonstration and Welcome. –4–4– AFTERNOON. —-º-º-- The Fleet of the United States of America proceeds to anchorages. American Admirals and Officers pay official visits to His Excellency the Governor- General and His Excellency the Governor, which visits are returned. Organ Recital at the Town Hall, Sydney —4–)--- EVENING. —4–)-- His Excellency the Governor-General's Dinner. The Citizens of Sydney will give a Concert at the Town Hall. ... PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-com/d. FR I DAY. AU GUST 21 ST. ---0-0-- MORNING. Official landing of the American Admiral, and Staff at Farm Cove. Reception by— The Honourable the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Ministers of State; The Honourable the Premier of New South Wales and the Members of the State Ministry; The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Town Clerk of the City of Sydney. Landing of American Officers, Sailors, and Marines at Farm Cove and Woolloomooloo Bay. - Public Reception at the Domain of the Admiral, Staff, Officers, Sailors, and Marines of the Fleet of the United States of America by- His Excellency the Governor-General. His Excellency the Governor. The Honourable the Prime Minister. The Honourable the Premier. The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor. Procession through the City of— The Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, and Town Clerk of Sydney; The American Admirals and Staffs. The Officers, Sailors, and Marines of the United States of America Fleet. PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-com/d. FRIDAY. AUGUST 21 ST coºl fºſ. — 4-4--- AFTERNOON. ----4--4---- Entertainment by the Commonwealth Govern- ment of the American Officers, Sailors, and Marines at Luncheon at Mrs. Macquarie's Point. 4-4--- EVENING. ---4--4--- The Government of New South Wales will give an Official Dinner. The Commonwealth Government will entertain American Officers, Sailors, and Marines at Theatres. Illumination of Public Buildings. Ladies of British Empire League will entertain 400 men from the British and U.S. Fleets at the Royal Naval House at a Smoke Concert and Social Evening. PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-com/d. SATURDAY. AUGUST 22 N. D. —-º-º-- - MORNING. —-4-4-- The Government of New South Wales will entertain Officers and Men of the U.S. Navy at railway excursions to Blue Mountains and to Newcastle; and special motor trip for Officers to Medlow Bath and Jenolan Caves. - Detachment of Officers and Men of the U.S. Navy will be entertained at Manly by the Residents. Fire Brigades Parade. —-)-4-- AFTERNOON. —-4-4-- Complimentary Regatta, on Sydney Harbour, to the U.S. Fleet, by the Commonwealth and State Governments. Football Match, England v. New South Wales, at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Baseball Match, Australia v. the Fleet of the U.S. of America, at the University Oval. The Rosehill Race Club will hold a Race Meeting. Theatre Managers will give Matinee per- formances. Organ Recital at the Town Hall, Sydney. PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-confd. SATURDAY. - AUGUST 22N D–eonid. —4–4– EVENING. —-4–4)-- His Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief will give a dinner to the Senior Officers of the U.S. Fleet, and an At Home on H.M.S. “Powerful.” Fireworks Display from various points in the Harbour, arranged by the Government of New South Wales. Venetian Carnival on Harbour. Illumination of Public Buildings. The Citizens of Sydney will entertain the American Fleet at a Concert at the Town Hall. The Ladies of the British Empire League will entertain 400 men from the British and U.S. Fleets at the Royal Naval House at a Smoke Concert and Social Evening. . . * * tº e PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-confd. SUNDAY. AUGUST 23 R D. —-º-º-º- MORNING. ---4--4--- No Function. –4–)-- AFTERNOON. Church Parade of Commonwealth Naval and Military Forces of New South Wales at the Victoria Barracks. Presentation to the 2nd Australian Infantry Regiment of Colours given by His Excellency the Governor. Officers and Men of the U.S. Of A. Fleet are invited. – 4–4– EVENING. –4–4– No Function. Musical At Home ; Smoking and Tea at the Royal Naval House. PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-com/d. MONDAY. - AUGUST 24T H. –4+– MORNING. —-4-4-- Review, Centennial Park, comprising— The Royal Navy. The United States of America Navy. Commonwealth Naval and Military Forces of New South Wales. Cadets. –4+– AFTERNOON. – 4–4– Luncheon for U.S. Navy at Agricultural Society's Ground. - : March to Hyde Park of Commonwealth Naval and Military Forces of New South Wales. - March through City of Mounted Troops., , l Y - •y " , ^ * . . . y n 3. . . . . . . . . . - - - •x 9 ºr 3. 5 * → * , º, - - 2 x ') n PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-conta. MONDAY. AUGUST 24TH -contal. –4+– EVENING. Their Excellencies the Governor General and Lady Northcote give a Ball. Continental, to be followed by Display of Fireworks in the Domain, provided by the Government of New South Wales. Illumination of Public Buildings. The Warrant, Petty Officers, and N.C.O.'s of the U.S. Fleet will be entertained by the Warrant Officers, First-class Petty Officers, and Sergeants of the Commonwealth Naval and Military Forces of New South Wales at the Drill Hall, Victoria Barracks, Pad- dington. The Citizens of Sydney will entertain the - American Fleet at a Concert at the Town Hall. PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-contal, TUESDAY. - AUGUST 25TH. ALL DAY. —-4-4-- Gymkhana at the Royal Agricultural Society's Ground, including Naval and Military Sports, Sheep-shearing, Wood-chopping, Buckjumping, Boomerang-throwing. —4-4--- MORNING. —4–4– The Consul for the United States of Brazil in Australia will hold a reception. The State Government will entertain Officers and Men of the U.S. Navy at railway excursions to Illawarra District and to National Park. — — — AFTERNOON. —-º-º-- The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society will entertain at Luncheon the Officers, Sailors, and Marines visiting the Gymkhana. – 4–4– EVENING. --->4)-- Lord Mayor's Reception. Commonwealth Governmententertains American Officers, Sailors, and Marines at Theatres. Illumination of Public Buildings. PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-com/d. weDNESDAY. - AUGUST 26TH . MORNING. –4–4– The Government of New South Wales will entertain Officers and Men of the U.S. Navy at a railway excursion to Parramatta, where they will be the guests of the towns- people. Return journey by Parramatta River, during afternoon. ---4-- AFTERNOON, –++– His Excellency the Governor's Garden Party. Public Schools Demonstration at the Sydney Cricket Ground, 8,000 children will take part. - - Theatre Managers will give Matinee perform- all CéS. Baseball Match at the University Oval. Australia v. U.S. of A. Fleet. - - -—(?-?-- EVENING. • * –4–4– No Function. THURSDAY. , , August 27". The Fleet of the United States of America sails for Melbourne. PROGRAMME FOR SYDNEY-conta. GENERAL. The Automobile Club will arrange motor- car excursions for the Officers. —-4-4-- The Zoological Society of New South Wales invites Officers and Men of the U.S. Fleet to visit the Zoological Gardens, Moore Park, which are open daily. - —-º-º- THE Electric Tram system is the property of the Government of New South Wales, who have arranged to carry free of charge all Sailors and Marines in uniform during their visit to Sydney. The destination of Tram Cars is displayed on each side and in front of the Car. —-0-0-- Itinerary of the fleet of the United States of America. Arrives Sydney . . 20 August. Leaves Sydney . . 27 August. Arrives Melbourne 29 August. Leaves Melbourne. 5 September. Arrives Albany . . 11 September. Leaves Albany . . 17 September. # § ******-* “. . *ś: <-->:::::: sº A W. Strºn º 53%)ol \\ \º ſ W & ºf º º º - tº , ! E º ºf: w º #A.º. º. \º: º *\tº \º PAVA W AP. . A \ f* ºf . º ; : * f W oyº ºš º * º tº . 㺠Aºtº. Sºgº º-cºº tº { º ſº ºs º t * ſº & | i É: ilow to distinguish Officers of the U.S. of America Navy. ==HEEE ADM 1 RAL, R EA R - cAPTA, N. CO M MAN DE R. L! EUT. L! EUTENANT, E NSW G W . A D M I R A L. CO M M A N DE R, Note.—Lieutenants, junior grade, have 13, stripes. Midshipmen serving at sea, § stripe. Warrant officers, star without any stripe. Engineers, same as line officers (interchangeable). All other branches have corresponding executive rank and titles without the star on sleeve. Colour of significance (between the sleeve stripes) : Medical, dark maroon ; Pay, white; Constructors, purple; Civil Engineers, light blue ; Professors of Mathematics, olive green. •·|- ºº: º， - „ ！ .！ • • • •! 3… * * * |-• • •• ！ … * * |-· |-• • • ·+… （ …- ---- SYDNEY. LLI (/D） D O It |- Z uJ > Z tr L > O (…) --- - - \ { . - * * * --- - - - - - - - - - - . º º - - - - - - ºº: * \ - | \,\ , - - - -- A ºº º - - -- - - - -i- -ºº: -- º || | | || A - - - - - 1. -- T. | || - - º |-- | -- - | | | | | || - - ſ | 3 || | | | | |, --- º - - A - A. \ | | | | | | || - | - - - º º º - - - - | - - | || Alsº intº - ||||||||||||| | | II. | | § NEW SOUTH WALES, #3 - AUSTRALIA. A tº . . . A VVelcorne to the United States Fleet Prepared by the & Issued by Authority of INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF SYDNEY. * NEW SOUTH WALES. º *9] S —-º. SYDNEY: WILLIAM APPLEGATE GULLICK, GOVERNMENT PRINTER. -- 1908. For Information about New SOUth Wales, RUstralia, Its ReSOUrCes, Its Prospects for the Settler, Its Wonderful Tourist Rttractions, PApply to The Rgent-General for New South Wales, 195. Cannon-street, London, E.C., England ; The British Consul, Chicago, U.S.R. The Commercial Commissioner for New South Wales in the East, Kobe, Japan; The Director, Intelligence Department, Sydney, New South Wales. We sent a word across the seas that said, “The house is finished and the doors are wide ; Come, enter in. A stately house it is, with tables spread, Where men in liberty and love abide With hearts akin.” —Ropp RIC QUINN, The House of ſhe Commonwea//h. - == T- - - § - - --- s L- - -- - - =~ =- ==-- = >T-- - - º º - º's *. *|| **** i. - º// \, - w - o ANAM: - # / Copyright. - --- A SAILING RACE ---> - - -* - ----- - --~~~~ - - - - = - - - - |N SYDNEY HARBOUR NEW SOUTH WALES. M. Hills, Sydney. NEW SOUTH WALES A WELCOME TO THE AUSTRALIA. ; UNITED STATES FLEET. V- - —sº T is in a spirit of the warmest esteem and most affectionate goodwill that the State of New South Wales welcomes to her shores the fleet of the United States. In Sydney Harbour, which is the first port of call in Australian waters, Governor Phillip, on 26th January, 1788, 120 years ago, arrived to form the first British establishment in Australia, and from this tiny nucleus has spread, in the course of a little over a century, a tide of settlement which has covered (although as yet but sparsely) the whole of the Australian Continent and the southern island of Tasmania. There is no country in the world, at the present day, which presents greater features of interest for citizens of the United States than does the Commonwealth of Australia. Speaking the same language, descended from the same stock, possessing the same free institutions, and inhabiting territories of almost identical area, the citizens of the American Union and of the Great British Dependency of the Southern Seas live under forms of Government T.I. possessing features of the most striking similarity. As settlement spread along the shores of the Australian Continent, separate centres of government were formed to administer local affairs which could not effectively be managed by a central authority, while but a few inhabitants were scattered over a vast territory. The result was that at the close of the nineteenth century, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, which now form the Commonwealth, were six distinct self-governing colonies, separated from one another by customs tariffs 6 New South Wales, Australia. each possessing complete autonomy in its internal affairs, and connected only by common allegiance to the British Crown. It had by this time long been recognised that community of interest made closer union desirable, and in the year 1900 a Bill for the Federation of Australia, which had been drafted by Australian statesmen and accepted by the people of the Colonies, was sent to London and passed into law by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. As the result of the Act, the Colonies have been, since Ist January, 1901, joined in a Federal Union, the constituent parts being no longer termed “Colonies,” but “States.” The framers of the Constitution having before them the models afforded by the Federal Constitutions of the United States and of Canada, unhesitatingly adopted the former. Each State has surrendered to a Federal Government juris- diction in a number of matters which public safety and common interest required should be controlled by a central authority, and has retained for itself full power in all others. In this way has come about the establishment within the British Empire, and under the British Crown, of a Federation resembling to a most remarkable degree, that of the United ... …, , , , ...….States. An Australian Legislature, consisting of a Senate and RAWSON, R.N. , G.C.B. - - Governor of New South Wales. al House of Representatives, makes laws for the whole union, HoN. chARLES GREGORY WADE - regulating customs and excise duties, interstate and oversea ". . . - commerce, the postal service, and defence—to mention some only of its chief functions. "ºg'ſ" A federal Supreme Court stands guardian to the Constitution; and The Australian so similar are the problems which arise in the two Federations that the constitutional deci- Constitution. Sions of the great American jurists are applicable in Australian Courts, and are as familiar to the lawyers of the Commonwealth as to their legal brethren in the United States. Indeed, the only substantial difference is to be found in the form of executive government, where the British A Welcome to the United States fleet. Fº %22%26º - - - º - - * - - º Copyright. G. A. Hills, Sydney. GEORGE-STREET SYDNEY SHOWING CATHEDRAL TOWN HALL, AND QUEEN VICTORIA MARKETs, 8 New South Wales, Australia. cabinet system, which had been long familiar to Colonial statesmen, was adopted instead of the American presidential form. In the Commonwealth, as in each State, the political head of the Executive is the leader who commands the largest following in the more numerous House of the Legislature. A Governor-General (in the case of the States, a Governor), appointed by the British Government, AREA, *...*.* º- Occupies, with respect to the political chief, a position similar to that in CT- T. … 2 2. * which the Sovereign stands to the * * British Prime Minister. The territory of the The Australian Common- ('0mmonwealth wealth is slightly Territory. larger than that of the United States— 2,974,581 Square miles, as Compared with 2,970,230—but it has only one- twentieth the number of inhabitants. The American Union, with 86,000,000 * * This met ſº has been drut wºn to the 8a true & * * g * settle (18 th (tt on the opposite pºſſe. $º * ~ Souls spread Over 1ts Vast area, 1s still Besides the area shown (tbove, the United \ fºr * >~~ - g * g Ntot tex possesses | º!'; of §§ 3. - - # tº 8 ° Af 590, S.84 '6' ſyl le.8/ (tw'ſt tº (6,449 x recognised (1S a land big W ith promise º | § lº the º l - - & e e 3,567,563 Nipu (ty' les. w SI (ty” * for the industrious immigrant. In the 'º';" |}}}aſ "" " ` - - , , Southern Seas a Federation with a still larger territory has fewer than 4,500,000 inhabitants to people a whole continent. Of the six States of the Commonwealth, New South Wales, which is greater in area than Texas and Louisiana combined, possesses the largest population; the numbers at the commencement of IQ08 being # jºr $ A Welcome to the United States THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. AREA, 2,974,581 SQUARE MILES. 3:2 PopULATION, 4,200,000. AS The areg of the Commonwealth territory is larger than that of the United States Q () proper. The above map does not include British New Guinea ſºul.33, sº tot re utiles/, which is administered by the Federal Government. Contrast the populat- tion ºf the United States, as shown by the stars, with the almost empty spaces or 4 w8tralia. (Each star represents 1,000,000 inhabitants.) - fleet. 9 estimated at 1,573,224. It is also the most productive State of the Federation, and has the largest Com- merce. By the Australian Constitu- tion the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth must be situated in New South Wales, but pending the choice of a site for the Federal Capital the Commonwealth Parliament sits at Melbourne, in Victoria. The territory of The Districts New South Wales of New South is divided into Wales. several fairly well- de fine d a re a S. Ranges of mountains extend along the coast-line at a distance of from 30 to ISO miles from the Sea, and the coastal district, between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Comprises about 22,300,000 acres of country—larger than the State of Maine—which are watered by many rivers. This is the home of a great dairying industry. Beyond the IO - New South Wales, Australia. mountains lie some 25,800,000 acres of tableland—as large as Virginia—including some of the richest agricul- tural lands in the State. From the plateaux, great slopes descend westward. Together with the adjacent plains and the Riverina country to the south, they include an area of 70,000,000 acres—more than twice as large as Alabama or Wisconsin. The bulk of the State's wheat crop is grown in this district, and most of its flocks are depastured there. The enormous plains which make up the Western Division of New South Wales (80,300,000 acres—triple the area of Ohio), are devoted to the raising of merino sheep. The climate of New South Wales is, upon the whole, one of the mildest and most equable Climate in the world. On the coast, the difference between the mean summer and mean winter and Rainfall. temperatures averages not more than 24 degrees, Fahr. In the Capital the difference | is only 17 degrees–71 degrees in summer, 54 degrees in winter. Summer in or Chicago ; its winters are as mild who prefer a colder climate there are cool, bracing nights. Higher tem- N Sydney is less hot than at Washington as those of Los Angeles. For those the tablelands, with bright days and | peratures are experienced in the interior, but the whole State lies well \ . 7 within the temperate zone, and there is no district which does not admit of `sº * the growth of a stalwart and strenuous white population. The rainfall ranges *_* from an average of 42 inches per annum in the coastal district, to about 20 inches “” “* * on the plains adjoining the western slopes, which are at present regarded as the limit of the wheat-growing area. The plain country, in the far west, has a smaller rainfall, and is the principal sufferer from the dry seasons which occur from time to time. Great irrigation works are now in course of construction, which will open up for close settlement a large tract of country in the interior, where the rainfall is at present insufficient for the purpose. Across the Murrumbidgee River, at Barren Jack, a dam is being built which resembles in many features the Roosevelt dam, now being constructed in America in connection with the Salt River reclamation project. When completed the Barren º Jack Reservoir will have a capacity very nearly as great as the famous Assouan Dam in Egypt. A Welcome to the United States fleet. G. A. Hills, Sydney, LINER AND FERRY STEAMERS AT CIRCULAR QUAY SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES. I 2 - New South Wales, Australia. In no country will be found a people living under freer institutions than do the citizens of The New South Wales. State laws are made by a Parliament consisting of a Legislative Council, Government and Legislative Assembly. The former is a permanent body, whose members are unpaid and of New South are appointed for life at the instance of the Executive Wales. Government. The Legislative Assembly consists of ninety members, who are elected for a period of three years, and receive an allowance of $1,450 per annum. All adult British subjects who have resided in New South Wales for twelve months, women as well as men, are entitled to vote at State elections, and every State elector may vote at Commonwealth elections. No one has more than one vote. In municipal matters a complete system of local government covers the whole State, except the more thinly populated Western Division. Practically the whole population of New South Wales is descended from inhabitants of the United Kingdom who have emigrated in the course of the last 100 years. The State is especially fortunate in having no coloured problem to deal with. Of the aboriginal natives whom the first settlers found in possession, there are now fewer than 4,000, and the race is dwindling yearly. ST. ANDREW S CATHEDRAL SYDNEY, N.S.W. In its immigration policy the Commonwealth has evinced a determination to maintain Absence the Australian Continent as a heritage of the white man, and has adopted the principle of Coloured previously obtaining in the different colonies of restraining the inflow of the coloured peoples. Problem. The only considerable alien element in the population of New South Wales, which is now approaching 1,600,000, consists of about 10,000 Chinese, who are gradually decreasing in numbers from year to year. The male element in the population is in excess of the female, there being about 115 men to every Too women. In religious belief, nearly half are members of the Church of England, one quarter are Roman Catholics, while the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches each claim about a tenth. The A Welcome to the United States fleet. NeWS0|t| WaltSº limited States ! (OMPARISON OF AREAS AND POPULATIONS. | N the accompanying diagrams, New South Wales, the most nopulous of the six States of the Australian Commonwealth. has been drawn to the same scale as four dišerent groups of States of the American Union. The population figures are those for looo. At the close of 1907, the inhabitants of New South VVales were estimated to number 1,573,224. PENNSYLVANIA AREA AREA,244 S50 Sq. Mules Population I in 1900) is,585,581 NEW SOUTH WALES A R E A SY O N EY POPULATION AREA 162,103 So Miles Popularion (in 1900) 21,046.695 2 Popular on V : R Gi Nl A AREA,214,380 SaMiles Popularion (in isoo) 9,914.938. POPULAT I O N º K E NT UCKY AREA, 310,372 sq. MILES, POPULATION (IN 1900,1,354,335. C E O R G | A AREA,205,060 Sq Miles Popularion (in isoo) 9,506,300 NORTH CAROLINA POPULAT 1 ON T Ž —r-------- -> I 3 I 4 New South Wales, Australia. State educational system ramifies out into the remotest districts, and children are everywhere provided with free primary instruction at the State schools. State education is unconnected with any particular religious body, and there is no church establishment, all denominations being on the same footing, and having equal facilities. - - Public safety is as complete in New South Wales as in any country in the world. To Social Life carry a revolver (except when on a sporting expedition) would be to mark oneself in New South out as a dangerous eccentric. Food is both cheap and plentiful. Mutton is sold at Wales. from 56. to IOC. per lb., beef 7c. to I6c., pork I2C. to I6c. Bought in small quantities for household purposes, flour costs about 24c. for 7 lb., while 6c. is the price of a 2-lb. loaf of bread. Coal in the metropolis sells at $4.25 per ton, and gas is 96c. per I,000 feet. In the cheap eating-houses of Sydney, a good three-course meal can be obtained for I2C. or 18q., and in the first- class restaurants the charge is from 60C. to 80c. Meat, being cheap, is freely eaten, and generally enters into every meal. The annual consumption is as high as 259 lb. per inhabitant, The magnificent climate which the State enjoys enables people to live much more in the open air than in most other countries, and this reacts upon the health of the community, whose death rate is one of the lowest in the world. - The consumption of alcoholic beverages in New South Wales is on the decrease. The State law provides for a Local Option referendum at each Parliamentary election, and at the last, 65 out of 90 electorates voted for a reduction in the number of Saloon licenses. As the result of early-closing legislation, most shops in the Sydney, Newcastle, and country shopping districts are required to close on one week-day at I p.m., on another at IO p.m., and on the remaining four at 6 p.m. Saloons must close at II p.m. on week days, and altogether on Sundays. That New South Welshmen are a thrifty race is proved by the Savings Bank returns, which show that in 1907 there were 422,000 depositors, whose total balance amounted to over $84,000,000. In life assurance, Australians are more heavily insured per head than any other people; 445,156 policies were in force in New South Wales in I906, for Sums aggregating $584,034,000. - A Welcome to the United States fleet. ſ * º º \ - - - - --F - - - - C º – *_{ → Copyright. º, -1. Hills, Sydney. SHEEP IN THE RIVERINA DISTRICT, NEW SOUTH WALES. 5 16 - New South Wales, Australia. Ample provision is made for the aged and helpless. Persons of good character, who have Old-age resided in New South Wales for twenty-five years, and have reached the age of 65, are entitled Pensions, to an old-age pension of $125 per annum if they are without means. State pensions, up to the same amount, are also paid to persons who are permanently incapacitated for work by reason of accident or ill-health. Federal legislation on this subject has just been passed, and in the future the pensions will be paid by the Commonwealth. - The multi-millionaire is not represented in Australia. The well-to-do class is made up of men who have acquired their affluence by the development of the State's primary and manufacturing industries, and of successful professional and business men: the formation of predatory trusts and combines is rigorously restrained by federal legislation. Nowhere do the interests of the workers receive fuller recognition in the body politic than in New South Wales. In view of the special conditions of settlement in Australia, where a small population is State-owned dispersed over a huge territory, it became necessary for the Government to undertake the Railways. provision of some of those transport and other services which in other countries are supplied by private companies. In this way it has come about that the whole railway system of New South Wales, of which, in 1908, there were 3,468 miles open to traffic, is the property of the State. The railways are managed solely in the interests of the producers and the travelling public, and fares and freights are systematically reduced so as to limit the profits to what is sufficient to pay interest on the capital borrowed for construction purposes. In 1907, 41,000,000 passengers were carried without the loss of a single passenger's life. The Sydney and suburban electric tram service, with a mileage of 91 miles, is also owned and managed by the State. 134,000,000 passengers were carried on the city tramways in 1907. No difficulties are ever experienced with the express service, as the post-office under- takes the delivery within the Commonwealth of parcels weighing up to eleven pounds. SYDNEY UNIVERSITY, A Welcome to the United States fiect. 17 The public finances of New South Wales are in a most healthy condition at the present - time. During the financial year ended 30th June, I008, the revenue collections amounted New South to $67,011,600, and the expenditure to $58,360,600, leaving a surplus of $8,651,000. In Wales Finances. the past four years the State Treasurer's surpluses have aggregated $20,885,000. Direct taxation is very light, the bulk of the revenue being derived from customs and excise duties (three-fourths of which must, under the Constitution, be refunded by the Commonwealth to the States), railway and tramway receipts, and the sale of public land. In constructing its railways and tramways, and other works, New South Wales has incurred a public debt of $411,000,000; 79 per cent. of this amount has been expended upon reproductive undertakings, which in 1906–7 returned a revenue that came within $591,000 of paying the whole interest bill of $15,056,ooo. - - In spite of the smallness of the population, the annual production of wealth in New South Production in Wales reaches enormous proportions. In 1907 a population, which averaged 1,555,000 during New South the year, produced no less than $283,200,000. Wales. The State is dependent for the principal source of its wealth upon its great Pastoral - Industry. Manufactures are second in importance, while the other industries which contribute substantially to the annual total are Mining, Agriculture, and Dairying—in the order named. The following were the values under these headings of the production in 1907 —Pastoral, $109,200,000 : Manufactures, $60,000,000; Mining, $49,416,000; Agriculture, $32,208,000; Dairying, $16,320,000. Forests and Fisheries supplied $7,200,000 to the total; and minor industries $8,856,000. . . . . Sheep-raising will probably be for all time one of the chief primary industries of New South The Pastoral Wales. Practically the whole of the Western Division of the State, comprising 80,300,000 Industry. acres, consists of vast plains which, in good seasons, are covered with succulent herbage, and - form an ideal ground for the raising of merino sheep. The outcome of the choicest Spanish strains, which were imported into the infant Colony at the close of the eighteenth century, the 44,500,000 sheep which are depastured in New South Wales grow the finest merino wool in the world. Australia is, at the 18 - New South Wales, Australia º: Pºrsº gº-ºººººººº...EQS㺠§ºś sº º - nºt- Copyright. - G. A. Hills, Sydney. A SHEARING SHED ON THE NORTH-WESTERN PLAINS, NEW SOUTH WALES. A Welcome to the United States fleet. IQ present day, the world's principal source of fine wool, and in 1906, out of 545,000,000 lb. grown in the Common- wealth, New South Wales produced 325,441,000 lb.-far more than was shorn in the whole of the United States during the same year. The Australian climate has, in some respects, changed the character of the Spanish fleece. The wool has become softer and more elastic, and while it has diminished in density it has increased in length, and the weight of the fleece has grown considerably. At the present time the best stud merino rams will cut from 30 to 35 lb. of good wool; and the average for grown sheep is nearly 8 lb. at each shearing, the lambs averaging about 23 lb. With wool at its present price, this means that sheep are worth $1.56 to the pastoralist at each clip. Besides the return from the wool, the squatter can find a ready market for his sheep in the form of mutton for the Sydney market, or for export to London and elsewhere in cold storage. In 1907, mutton and lamb, to the value of $3,302,400, was exported - in this way. As the sheep is of all animals the easiest to manage, the occupation of a sheep- " " " raiser in Australia is, for a man with some capital, probably the easiest and pleasantest imaginable. Of noxious animals the only one of any consequence with which he has to deal is the rabbit, and its depredations upon the pastures are kept in check by fences of wire-netting, trapping, and poisoning; while the dry spells with which the pastoral districts are from time to time visited will in the future be mitigated by the conservation of fodder and an extension of artesian and river irrigation. In 1860, the year which followed the separation of Queensland, by which New South Industrial Wales acquired its present dimensions, the sheep in the Colony numbered 6,000,ooo, and Progress. the country was little more than a great sheep-walk. Its wealth was derived from its wool and its gold mines. In the succeeding half-century, although the flocks have increased seven fold, and the pastoral industry is still by far the most important factor in the State's production, a marked change has taken place. With the development of the State's vast silver and coal deposits a great mineral A NEW souTH 2O - New South Wales, Australia. industry has sprung into being. The growth of the primary industries has fostered the establishment of many forms of manufacture. In the pastoral industry itself, altered conditions are now observable. While the number of sheep has largely increased, the size of the individual flocks has become smaller. Men with limited capital are successfully taking up sheep-raising in increasing numbers, and in fifteen years the number of small flocks of 2,000 sheep and under has increased from 9,500 to 16,800. But it is to agriculture that one must turn in order to realise the most significant of the (Areat different forms of development which are now going on. Until 1898 Agricultural New South Wales did not grow enough wheat to provide Developments. for the wants of her own population, and millions of bushels were imported every year into a country possessing enormous areas of some of the finest wheat-land in the world. The middle nineties, however, saw the beginning of a great advance in wheat-growing. Between 1894 and || | 1901, the area under wheat leapt from less than 600,000 acres to over I,500,000, and the State has now become one of the world's wheat-exporting countries. In 1907 the exports of wheat and flour were valued at $7,353,600. Although the bulk of the agricultural output is made up of wheat and hay, the farming possibilities of the State are by no means confined to this crop. A considerable range of climate, coupled with varying altitudes and soils, renders possible the production of practically every grain, fruit, flower, and domestic animal that can minister to human comfort or enjoyment. In the North Coast district, where bananas, coffee, and passion- fruit grow side by side with potatoes, cereals, tobacco, onions, and vines, the rich river-flats are given over to the cultivation of maize; and crops averaging from 40 to 60 bushels, with as much as Ioo bushels on choice patches, are not uncommon. Ten thousand acres of sugar-cane are also cropped yearly in this district. Considerable expansion has taken place in the cultivation of oats in recent years, although only 76,000 acres are so far under crop. About 5,000 acres of vineyards produce something in the neighbourhood of 1,000,000 gallons of wine each year. º 2S] * 3)A = A-4Laº W2,~~i=>=S(\!! tº ºat= zºzºsº - º A Welcome to the United States fleet. º HARVESTING IN THE TAMWORTH DISTRICT, NEw souTH wales. Copyrigh t tº -1. Hills, Sydney. 2 I Copyright. New South Wales, Australia. - - - - º - - º S. º 27-23-ºx - S 322&s EMPTYING STRIPPERS IN A RIVERINA WHEATFIELD NEW SOUTH WALES, ºrs; (º, A. Hills, Sydney, A Welcome to the United States fleet. 23 But wheat is, beyond all comparison, the principal crop, and it is the cultivation of wheat, coupled with the raising of sheep, that offers the greatest opportunities in New South Wales at the present day. The total area under cultivation to all crops is still less than 3,000,000 acres, and upon a conservative estimate it has been calculated that there are 18,000,000 acres of excellent wheat-land lying uncultivated. A determined effort is being made by the State Government to encourage an inflow of Immigration agricultural settlers to people these empty acres. Active immigration propaganda is now encouraged. going on in the United Kingdom. Settlers of any white race are cordially invited to make their homes in the rural districts. Farmers arriving from the United States, who take up land for purposes of agriculture, are granted a subsidy of $30 towards their passage money. The same subsidy is given on each full-fare paid for a member of the family, and S15 for each half-fare. Tickets at greatly reduced rates are issued to enable them to travel on the railways for inspection purposes; and further railway conces- sions are granted when they are transporting their belongings to their new home. Extensive areas of Crown land are thrown open for - settlement every year; but the best opportu- nities for the new arrival are generally to be found in some of the subdivisions of large private estates which are continually taking place for settlement purposes. While New South Wales was still in the pastoral stage of its existence, immense tracts of good wheat country were alienated to graziers, and pressure is now being brought to bear by the State Government to unlock these great areas for the benefit of the small farmer Excellent uncleared wheat-land can be bought for SIo an acre. For land cleared of its timber and ready for the plough, the price ranges from $14.50 to $24, and easy terms of payment can usually be obtained. As much land as is desired can be bought in districts with a rainfall of 20 inches and upwards, situated within 300 or 350 miles of Sydney; and wheat can be transported from a farm this distance from the metropolis to the London market for 26c. per bushel. There is no country in the world at the present AN ARTESIAN BORE, N.S.W. day which offers greater opportunities to 24 New South Wales, Australia. the agriculturist than does New South Wales. And it is not only for the man with some capital that these opportunities exist. Competent farm hands are in great demand, and the same assistance in passage money is granted to them as to farmers. They can earn on the farm $5 a week with board and lodging; and, in a country where land is so cheap, a man with saving habits can soon put by enough to make a Small commence- ment on his own account. - - In order to enable persons who have taken up land to improve and develop their holdings Aids for and to build homes, the Government makes advances to settlers of amounts ranging from the Settler. $240 to $9,600. The interest is 4% or 5 per cent., and terms of repayment easy. Advances are made upon the security of land purchased either from the Crown or from private owners. A State Department of Agriculture is specially charged with the function of fostering argicultural development, and renders invaluable assistance to settlers by conducting crop experiments, analysing soils, and in many other ways. Complete provision is made for training in agriculture at the State Agricultural College and Experiment Stations. The Dairying Industry in New South Wales is, for the most part, confined to the coastal The Dairying district. Of recent years its development has been phenomenal, a result which is to be Industry. attributed to the general provision of cold storage on the trading steamers, which enables the dairy farmers of the State to place their butter on the London market, and also to the extension of the factory system of butter-making. - Between 1897 and I907 the annual butter output increased from 29,500,000 lb. to 59,500,000 lb., and in the latter year 21,700,000 lb. were exported. The bulk of the butter is produced on the North Coast, where paspalum grass has been introduced with great success as a fodder plant. The cream is separated from the milk on the farm and is conveyed to the nearest butter-factory for conversion into butter. Cheese-making, in which there is room for great expansion, is practically confined to the South Coast; 4,680,000 lb. were produced in I907. The best openings for dairy farmers exist in the northern district, near the coastline, where settlement is now progressing at a rapid rate, and the heavy scrub, for which the district was famous, is fast melting away before the axe of the pioneer. Copyright. A Welcome to the United States Fleet. A DARY HERD IN THE MOSS VALE DISTRICT NEW SOUTH WALES. G. A. Hills, Sydney. 26 - New South Wales, Australia. The dairy-cows in 1907 numbered over 750,000, and of other cattle there are nearly 2,000,000. Horses thrive excellently on the native grasses of Australia, and New South Wales horses have acquired a high reputation for their speed and endurance. In India there is always a keen demand for “ Walers,” and large purchases were made by the Japanese for their cavalry during the war with Russia. Besides the magnificent agricultural qualities of the soil, New South Wales possesses mineral Mineral Riches, deposits of incalculable richness. Here, as in the other industries of the State, the tale is one of intense activity. Between 1902 and 1907 the mineral output increased from $24,480,000 to $49,440,000 per annum. In the United States at the present time the annual mineral production amounts to about $10 per T. head of the population. In New South Wales it is no less than $32. The first mineral worked in the State was coal, gold not having been discovered until 1851; but after the opening up of the immense silver-lead deposits at Broken Hill in 1883, silver, with its allied lead and zinc, became the principal factor in mineral production. In 1907, silver, silver-lead, and ore were won to the value of nearly $19,200,000, giving employment to Io,000 miners. The chief silver deposits occur in the western portion of the State, near the South Australian boundary; but the metal is widely distributed. Coal is next in importance to silver, and the coal-fields of New South Wales supply 80 per cent. of the total Australian production. They occupy a large area of from 24,000 to 28,000 square miles in the eastern portion of the State, and have a seaboard of about 200 miles, which makes them excellently situated for export purposes. 8,658,000 tons, valued at $14,026,000, were won in 1907, 17,000 men being employed. The Government Geologist has estimated that the quantity of coal now in existence in the State, down to a depth of 4,000 feet, is at least 115,000,000,000 tons, and as the deposits in Europe and America are being steadily worked out, the Coal Measures of New South Wales must become of enormous importance as one of the world's great sources of supply. Large deposits of kerosene shale exist on the eastern and western boundaries of the coal area. COAL TRUCKS AT NEWCASTLE, N.S.W. A Welcoine to the United States fleet. - - - … ſº º ------- Sººº...A lºº º º THE PROPRIETARY SILVER MINE BROKEN HILL NEW SOUTH WALES. 28 - New South Wales, Australia. ous, gold now stands far below silver and coal as a source of wealth. The --- average annual output is something over $4,800,000. Copper and tin are yearly _º_*: produced in large quantities. The iron industry is now in its infancy. Deposits º of iron-ore are widely diffused, but no successful attempt was made to develop arºl lºsſº the industry until 1905, when the State Government accepted the tender of º 1% i ſ㺠local company to supply pig-iron, rolled O D * ºil lºsſº, ""Pºny ºppy Pºº". Although many districts are aurifer- steel, and iron. A blast furnace was nº jºi. ºff ºf is: opened near Lithgow, in the Blue Mountains, in 1907, and was in full ºn º operation at the commencement of 1908. The favourable situation of the º º Lithgow iron-deposits has led the Federal Government to select this Hº- locality as the site for its small-arms LANDS DEPARTMENT SYDNEY, N.S.W factory. The less important minerals also occur in great quantities. Opal and diamond are the principal gem- stones, the finest known opal being obtained at White Cliffs. Beautifully-coloured marbles and fine building stone are abundant. The Hawkesbury sandstones, upon which Sydney is built, provide the capital city with an inexhaustible supply of building material, pleasing in colour, and easily worked. The manufacturing industries of New South Wales add to raw material a value which, in A Great the record of the State's annual production, is second in amount only to the value of the Manufacturing produce from pastoral pursuits. In 1907 there were 4,387 manufactories, the value added Industry. to raw materials amounting to, approximately, $60,000,000. The chief manufactures are those connected with metal works and machinery, clothing and textile fabrics, food and beverages, and books and printing. Eighty-seven thousand hands were employed in 1907, where only 51,000 had worked ten years previously. As may readily be understood, the existence of a group of thriving and rapidly increasing industries has had the effect of building up an enormous commerce. In 1907 New South Wales had an external trade of over $258,000,000. If trade with other States of the Commonwealth be included, the total rises to Copyright. A Welcome to the United States fleet. A DINGHY RACE IN SYDNEY HARBOUR NEW SOUTH WALES, G. A. Hills, Sudney. 3O New South Wales, Australia. more than $422,400,000. When it is remembered that the trade per head of population in the Commerce United States stands at less than $39, some idea of the gigantic commercial activity in New and Shipping. South Wales may be gathered from the fact that the oversea trade of that State amounted to as much as $166 per head in 1907. Including interstate trade it was $272. With only a little more than 1,500,000 inhabitants New South Wales has nearly as large a commerce as Japan with 48,000,000. The imports from oversea, of which the value in 1907 amounted to nearly $100,800,000, comprise chiefly wearing apparel and piece goods, machinery and other manufactured commodities. The exports are the raw --~ material which all the world must have— wool, wheat, metals, meat, butter, and º *- coal. Their value in 1907 was nearly $158,400,000. New South Wales imports any other country outside the British ery, manufactured metals, timber, total value of $8,172,000, sending in rial,—principally coal, wool, and skins. the United States were $11,210,000 and A vast amount of shipping is naturally required to transport this great commerce. Even in England, at - the centre of the world's shipping trade, Sydney is exceeded in its shipping sr. Many’s cathedral, sºoney, N.S.W. tonnage only by the four ports of Lon- don. Liverpool, Cardiff, and Newcastle. 3,451,723 tons entered the port of Sydney in 1906, and 6,070,953 entered State ports in the following year. Sydney, the State capital, situated on the shores of the famous harbour of Port Jackson, The State is the largest city in Australia, and the value of its ratable property is greater than that of Capital. any other city in the British Empire, except London. In 1908 the citizens numbered 577,000. Sydney harbour is the objective of nearly all the ships sailing on the South Pacific. It is the great British entrepôt on the Pacific Ocean, the chief naval station in the southern hemisphere, more from the United States than from Empire. In 1906 she imported machin- tobacco, kerosene, and other goods to a return $14,224,000 worth of raw mate- In the following year the imports from the exports thither $3,897,000. A Welcome to the United States fleet. 3 º and is destined to become one of the greatest º seaports of the world. While the main busi- § ness and commercial centre is situated on the sº south of Port Jackson, large and fast-growing º residential suburbs have spread to the north- sº ern shore, and, although there are yet many º bays where the primeval bush still clothes º the hills to the water's edge, the red tiles of & the modern villa roofs are gradually finding º their way further afield as the city grows. º Sydney possesses institutions that would do 3. no discredit to mature cities of the old world. º Its University will bear comparison with § kindred establishments in America or Europe; º its schools and colleges are excellent; its º churches and cathedrals are adornments to º the city; its municipal establishment is well GE equipped; its electric tramway service speedy, º º cº º º * § sº Rºxº Copyright. G. A. Hills, Sydney. THE POST OFFICE AND MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY. 32 - New South Wales, Australia. cheap, and effective. Although there is no town with better commercial facilities, water deep enough to float the largest ocean-going vessels lapping the edge of its busy streets, it has, from its incomparable situation, won a great reputation as a holiday city. Busy ferries and scudding yachts flit to innumerable beauty spots on the shore of the mighty harbour. East- ward from the centre of the metropolis, barely 4 miles as the crow flies, is the Pacific coast, with a line of dazzling golden beaches upon which people bathe and sport in the breakers. Half a dozen miles to the south is the broad sheet of Botany Bay, the scene of the first landing of Captain Cook in 1770. Both to the north and south of Sydney, great national forest reserves have been created as recreation grounds for the citizens. National Park, on the south, comprises 33,720 acres of beautifully wooded hills and valley, with an eastward fringe of ocean beaches. To the north lies Kuring-gai Chase with 35,300 acres bordering the southern bank of the Hawkesbury, a river which, for exquisite scenery, Anthony Trollope, the novelist, ranked even above the Mississippi and the Rhine. Westward of Sydney the Blue Mountains attain an altitude of 3,000 feet at a distance of A Tourist 60 miles. This is a great holiday resort, and many professional and business men of the Wonderland. metropolis have summer residences in the mountains. The scenery is of rare magnificence. Through countless centuries the rivers at the brink of the tablelands have carved out stupendous gorges, comparable with the famous cañons of Colorado. The traveller in the mountains carries away memories of graceful waterfalls leaping from the brink of giant cliffs, gleaming rock-walls of enormous height with eucalyptus-covered slopes at their feet, and broad valleys where tall trees, seen from above, seem but a dark green carpet, and a river but a silver thread. Wonderful mist effects occur on the mountains, where the distant horizon, even on the brightest days, is softened by a shimmering blue haze, which deepens to indigo as evening falls. The rarefied atmospheres that blow off the eucalyptus forests have a wonderfully exhilarating and bracing effect upon the system. Excellent accommodation, equal to that of the most palatial continental spas, is to be obtained in the mountain towns. An old Man KANGA Roo. A Welcome to the United States fleet. 33 | Fºº §: - sº º!N § ſég Sºss-cº A LAUGHING JACKASS. A BLUE MOUNTAIN GORGE, NEW souTH WALES New South Wales, Australia. - -º-nº- - - §3. 3Mºğº - ſ (\º º - H - tº D ſ §º & 2% º º \\ | Sº Besides the Blue Moun- The Limestone tains, the State possesses Cayerns. other scenic attractions which are rapidly making New South Wales a great tourists' rendezvous. Three wonderful systems of limestone caverns exist in different parts of the State. Of these, the Jenolan Caves are situated within #} a day's coaching of any of the Blue Mountain § centres. The exploration of one of these § caverns is a unique experience, even for the most travelled tourist. They are a marvel- ſ lous fairyland of stalactitic and stalagmitic % formations. Myriads of delicate dripstones, of hues graduating from lemon-yellow to the colour of ripe apricots and from the deepest chocolate to the most stainless white, depend ==xº~~<= cº-º: sº THE MINARET, JENOLAN CAVES, NEW SOUTH WALES. A Welcome to the United States fleet. 35 from the cave ceilings, while fluted stalagmites, some slender as lead pencils, others 50 feet in circumference, soar upwards from the floor. Underground rivers flow through the caverns in the inky blackness of perpetual night, where : : glistening forms of eerie beauty start into being at § the flare of the magnesium torch. The Wombeyan St Caves, situated amongst picturesque hill country sº in a south-westerly direction from the metropolis, § are as accessible as Jenolan, which they rival in sil. attractiveness; while the Yarrangobilly caverns, lying further to the south, are just as beautiful, and contain formations curiously resembling oriental architecture. Along the Pacific coast of the State, rollers which have swept round half the world dash into foam on a long series of magnificent ocean scºgº-ºº-ººse a-SSCº-ºº: THE COCKATOO AND LOT'S WIFE WOMBEYAN CAVES, 36 - New South Wales, Australia. beaches. Thirty miles south of Sydney commences the Illawarra district, a lovely garden The land, lying between the ocean and the ranges, which in places approach quite to the Pacific Coast. water's edge. The coastal railway here runs through beautiful scenery of mountain, meadow, and ocean, and an excellent motor-road follows the coast-line, now cut round the face of a lofty cliff at whose base the rollers are breaking, now striking through lush meadows studded with graceful palms. As holiday resorts, whether in summer or in winter, nothing could surpass the townships and villages which nestle in the bays of the Illawarra coast. The rivers of the northern coastline are broad streams, fed by a heavy rainfall, which pour down from the tableland to the ocean through flats of amazing fertility, and scrub country which, when cleared, provides wonderful pasture for dairy cattle. The gorgeous sub-tropical vegetation of the rivers near the Queensland Border gives them special attractions for the tourist and holiday maker. The existence in the south of the State of ranges of mountains, which, in Mount Kosciusko, Alpine New the highest peak in Australia, rise to an altitude of 7,358 feet—higher than the famous Righi South Wales. or Pilatus of the Swiss Alps—provides the citizens of New South Wales with opportunities of enjoying the pastimes of Norway and the snow-bound regions of Canada. The mountain is easy of ascent, and in summer horses may be ridden to the summit. In winter, when the descending snowdrifts bar the road to the heights, the mountains become a great centre of attraction for ski-running and tobogganing parties. A cosily furnished hotel has been erected by the Government, as well as a bungalow for trout-fishers, so that every comfort exists for the tourists who fare thither to enjoy the delights of ice-skating or whizzing on ski down the great snow slopes. For the geologist, Mount Kosciusko presents features of peculiar interest, since in its vicinity exist what are reputed to be the oldest land surfaces on the globe. Apart altogether from the great scenic beauty of many districts, Australia, from the strangeness of the forms of its animal and vegetable life, is one of the most interesting countries in the world. Cut off by the ocean for untold centuries from the rest of the earth, A Welcome to the United States fleet. 37 Q 2 - Tº 2- 2-&-º- - 2- º PS2=2 º £º sº-sº º 3. 2 ºf P º the vegetation of - the island continent has developed from the more primitive forms, while the animals, long ex- tinct elsewhere, are relics of an age when the earth was younger. In place of the familiar | groves of his native land, the traveller § finds in New South S. Wales forests of giant eucalyptus, great trees that shed their bark but not their leaves; and vast expanses of wattle, making the bush golden with its gleaming yellow sprays. Exquisite ferns exist in endless variety, and grow in | i º f º | ->s-E- º == zz-E E-----> p--_-->- | Bºs-ECO .* ºº: s& *E=s=Tº) 2-º- " _ == *- *Fes -*_-º'- Gºssºrs: Cºsºsºs-i: º==-aºſ. - -> KANGAROOS ON THE NORTHERN TABLE LAND, NEW SOUTH WALES, New South Wales, Australia. ON THE UPPER SNOWY RIVER, A FAMOUS NEW SOUTH WALES TROUT STREAM. A Welcome to the United States fleet. 39 riotous profusion, especially in the neighbourhood of the coast. It is these eucalyptus forests Strange Flora which provide hardwood timbers surpassing all others in strength and endurance. The native and Fauna. fauna consists almost entirely of different varieties of queer marsupials, which range in size from the “old-man " kangaroo of the plains, standing taller than a man, to the diminutive bandicoot. In the western district the kangaroo is not now plentiful, but large numbers are to be found in the cattle country of the tablelands. Wallabies. similar to the kangaroo but smaller, are every where abundant in hill country, and afford excellent sport. Other forms are the wombat, a somewhat bearlike creature of no great size, which burrows in the furry animal of a rather comical of harrowing the feelings of the those of a sick baby. The native spite of the relentless enmity of the he sometimes works sad havoc. from England, found their new habitat so suitable that they have multiplied prodigiously, and wire- netting fences are now necessary in - many districts to preserve pasture and crops from their all-devouring appetites. Rabbit-trapping has become quite an industry in the State. Seven - million pairs, valued at $1,470,000, were exported in 1907, and the value of the - skins exported in the same year amounted to about $1,200,000. Queerest of all the sº-Running at ºf Kosciusko, native animals is the platypus, a four- footed creature with the bill of a duck, and N.S. wº. furry coat, which lays shell-less eggs. Birds are represented by the emu, which is of the ostrich type; the lyre-bird, which possesses wonderful powers of mimicry: black swams, endless varieties of pigeons, and gorgeous parrots. Edible fish abound in the coastal waters of New South Wales, affording excellent sport to the fishermen. From a boat off Sydney Heads, schnapper, a splendid table-fish weighing up to 25 lb., can be earth ; and the native bear, a small aspect, which, if wounded, has a habit sportsman with cries resembling dog, the dingo, still flourishes in pastoralist, amongst whose lambs Rabbits, which were introduced 4O New South Wales, Australia. caught in great quantities. Inland, the streams of the tableland have been stocked with Trout-fishing rainbow trout, and magnificent trout waters can be whipped during the open season in New (November to April), no license fees or other charges being payable. South Wales. In fact, for the tourist and sportsman, as well as for the agricultural settler, New South Wales possesses attractions equalled by few other countries. A young land, with boundless resources and immense possibilities, it stands in the forefront of a continent peopled by a single race and united under one Federal Government, with whose future are bound up the destinies of the South Pacific. wallaey witH young in Pouch º: New South Wales. -e) a->= SYDNEY geº AUSTRALIA /TRN JO/UN _ſ \\ 5) (* The Queen of the South Pacific PREPARED BY THE ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF - & SYDNEY. W NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY : WILLIAM APPLEGATE GULLuck, Gover NMENT PRINTER. -- 1908. FOr Information about New SOUth Wales, Rustralia, Its ReSOUrCes, Its Prospects for the Settler, Its Wonderful Tourist PIttractions, Apply to * - The Pigent-General for New South Wales, 195, Oxford-street, London, E.C., England; The British Consul, Chicago, U.S.R., ; * The Commercial Commissioner for New South Wales in the East, Kobe, djapan; The Director, Intelligence Department, Sydney, New South Wales. -> SYDNEY. AUSTRALIA—The Queen of the South Pacific. G - º º e) YDNEY, the capital of the State of New South Wales, is the largest city in Australasia, and |- the principal commercial centre of the South Pacific. Its population, which in 1908 numbered 577, ooo, is as numerous as that of Birmingham or Baltimore : the value of its ratable property is greater than that of any other city in the British Empire, except London. From its situation on the shores of the peerless harbour of Port Jackson, Sydney has the distinction of being one of the most picturesque cities in the world. The chief business and shopping centre is built upon the southern shore, and the principal thoroughfares debouch upon the deepwater frontage of Circular Quay, where mammoth ocean liners lie berthed side by side with the swift harbour ferries which bring the waterside suburbs within ten to twenty minutes of the heart of the metropolis. Fast- growing residential suburbs are spreading along the harbour front, where pleasant villas, built on the dark, verdure-clad hills, look down upon the snow-white sails of scudding yachts or puffing tugs heaving on tow-lines at the end of which huge steamers lunge sluggishly up the mighty port. The splendid buildings of the city, with their domes and spires and massive blocks of handsome structures, built of the warm light-brown sandstones which form Sydney's foundations, impress the stranger, on his voyage up the fairway from the harbour heads, with a metropolitan air as of some old-world capital. The institutions of Sydney are of a kind to do credit to any city. The public buildings are palatial edifices, in which the leading schools of architecture are worthily represented, from the Italian Renaissance of the Post Office and the Lands Department to the Classic simplicity of the Art Gallery, and the Tudor battlements of Government House. Sydney University, of which the Great Hall is a fine example of the Perpendicular Gothic, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. provides instruction comparable with that of the best universities of the old world and America; the schools and colleges are of a high standard ; splendid cathedrals and churches adorn the capital ; while traffic is provided for by swift electric trams connecting with the railways, which, like, the tram-service, are owned by the State. Industrially, Sydney is already great, and is destined to be greater. Its trade, reckoned by imports and exports, reaches £64,OOO,OOO annually. A coal seam underlying the city and harbour is now being worked, and the ceaseless clang of hammers on the anvils of dockyards tells of healthy maritime industry, for this is the port whence is shipped the famous New South Wales merino wool, and the wheat, butter, mutton, coal, silver, gold, and other products of the generous soil of a State whose million and a half inhabitants produce annually as much as 4,38 per head. Sydney's magnificent climate and beautiful surroundings place it above any other city in the world, from a residential point of view. The temperature has a range of only 17 degrees Fahr. between average summer and winter weather. Snow and biting cold are alike unknown, and artificial heating is little needed ; while an occasional hot day in summer brings its own remedy in the shape of a “southerly buster” of cool wind, which sweeps up the coast, laden with the freshness of the southern Ocean. Great as Sydney has become as the leading commercial centre of Australia, it may with justice be regarded as a holiday city. Magnificent ocean beaches fringe the metropolis along the Pacific littoral, to which Sydney residents repair in thousands to enjoy the delightful sport of Surf-bathing in the “long wash of Australasian seas.” Within twenty miles to the north and south lie the two great national forest reserves of Kuring-gai Chase and National Park, each including nearly 35,000 acres, forming glorious recreation spaces for Sydney's citizens. The superb climate, which makes open-air life enjoyable at every season of the year, causes these splendid natural facilities to be availed of to the full. The magnificent gorges and leaping waterfalls of the Blue Mountains, at an elevation of over 3,000 feet, are only 60 miles west of the metropolis, and provide a complete change of climate and scene at the cost of a couple of hours' train journey. All the State railways radiate from Sydney, which is, from its position, the natural tourist centre of Australia. Persons who are interested in this great city of the Southern Seas, or in the industrial, commercial, and tourist possibilities of the State of which it is the capital, may obtain full information from the New South Wales Intelligence Department, or from its branch, the Government Tourist Bureau, with offices in Martin Place, Sydney. SYDNEY, THE CAPITAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES, IS THE LARGEST CITY IN AUSTRALASIA. SYDNEY SKY-LINES SEEN FROM THE HARBOUR, FOR NATURAL FACILITIES FOR SHIPPING, SYDNEY STANDS UNRIVALLED. - - - -º-º-º: OCEAN LINERS AT CIRCULAR QUAY. SYDNEY HAR BOUR NEW SOUTH WALES. THE LARGEST VESSELS MAY BE BERTHED ALONGSIDE SYDNEY WHARFS AND QUAYS. THE HARBOUR FERRY WHARFS AT CIRCULAR QUAY SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. OVER TWO THOUSAND VESSELS, TOTALLING 4,274,000 TONS, ENTERED SYDNEY HARBOUR IN 1907. SKIFFS OFF WATSON'S BAY AND SOUTH HEAD CLIFFS SYDNEY HARBOUR, SYDNEY HARBOUR IS UNPARALLELED FOR AQUATIC SPORTS. SKIFFS OFF CLARK ISLAND AND BRITISH WARSHIPS IN FARM COVE, SYDNEY HARBOUR, NEW SouTH walEs. IN POPULATION, SYDNEY IS THE EIGHTH CITY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE, hº | | | | || | | | | || - * – "" *** 2-2. GEORGE-STREET, SYDNEY, SHOWING TOWN HALL AND QUEEN VICTORIA MARKETS. A VIEW IN PITT-STREET. IN 1907, THE POPULATION OF SYDNEY NUMBERED 577,000. Fº F'. - - - GEORGE-STREET SYDNEY, LOOKING NORTH. SYDNEY HAS FOUR GRAVING DOCKS, FIVE FLOATING DOCKS, AND FOUR PATENT SLIPS. A YACHT RACE OFF MANLY, SYDNEY HARBOUR, NEW SOUTH WALES. A MANLY FERRYE STEAMER. SUTHERLAND GRAVING DOCK (608 F.T. BY 84 F.T.) CAN RECEIVE VESSELS DRAWING 32 FEET. SKIFFS OFF ROSE BAY, PORT JACKSON, GOAT ISLAND, SYDNEY HARBOUR, NEW SOUTH walEs. SYDNEY'S ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS CARRIED 134,000,000 PASSENGERS IN 1907. ELECTRIC TRAMS AT CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. CAPITAL VALUE OF RATABLE PROPERTY IN SYDNEY AND SUBURBS, L102,385,000. PYRMONT-BRIDGE LOOKING EAST, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY POSSESSES MAGNIFICENT CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES. | || …）|×| T. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, ST, THE SYDNEY TOWN HALL HAS THE LARGEST ORGAN IN THE WORLD. Hiſtºli fºllſ; - - º - - - || - Cº- º º -º-º-º- Lº – - - THE TOWN HALL SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES. GEORGE-STREET syDNEY. THE SYDNEY FERRIES CARRIED 20,000,000 PASSENGERS IN 1907. FERRIES ON THE NORTH SHORE OF SYDNEY HARBOUR, NEW SOUTH WALES. syDNEY HARBOUR HAS A FRONTAGE OF NEARLY 200 MILES. MOSMAN'S BAY, A POPULAR HARBOUR SUBURB OF SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. THE TRADE OF SYDNEY HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN ELEVEN YEARS. GovePNMENT HOUSE, SYDNEY, THE RESIDENCE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH. SYDNEY UNIVERSITY DEGREES ARE FULLY RECOGNISED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND AMERICA. - THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES WHERE 1,200 STUDENTS ATTENDED LECTURES |N 1908. MANLY IS THE BRIGHT ON AND CONEY ISLAND OF AUSTRALIA. - _- - - * - -- Ls ºf ſº ºf - º ,,. º - _ -- -- º * if º - º'- -- - **** wº º: ! º * ºr º - . º - - - - - - - - - - - --- .. ------, - ." - * - - - - - - ---- *. ." MANLY BEACH, LOOKING EAST, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY'S OCEAN BEACHES ARE UNPARALLELED FOR SURF-BATHING. - - - - - - - -- -- - - -- º º-º-º: º - º Megative by Swain & Co., Sydney, SURF-BATHING ON THE OCEAN BEACH AT COOGEE, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. THE TRADE OF THE PORT OF SYDNEY WAS ESTIMATED AT (64,000,000 IN 1907. THE POST OFFICE CORNER, GEORGE-STREET, SYDNEY, WITH VIEWS OF MARTIN PLACE, THERE ARE 1,968 FACTORIES, EMPLOYING 57,780 HANDS IN THE SYDNEY METROPOLITAN AREA. SYDNEY FROM THE NORTH, A BUSY SHOPPING CENTRE IN GEORGE-STREET SYDNEY. CHURCH HILL, SYDNEY, SYDNEY IS HEALTHIER THAN ANY OTHER CAPITAL CITY IN THE OLD WORLD OR AMERICA. THE CHIEF SECRETARY'S OFFICE, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY DEATH-RATE IS ONLY 11-5 PER 1,000, LONDON 15-3, NEW YORK 18-6. PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL, SYDNEY. SYDNEY HOSPITAL MACQUARIE-STREET. SYDNEY'S PROXIMITY TO THE OCEAN ENSURES A DELIGHTFUL SUMMER CLIMATE. - - ºº: º, º-wº- ---. . - ºl º º º- ºr " ****- º º º - ºn- - - - º' Tº Tº sº ºn ºn-º-º- ºr ºf . -- " - ** * * º º * * * * ºf ºf "T º * * * º - º - - - - ** ** -- * f - * - #. * º - - - - - - - - - - º º º: *... " - - - - . . . . . . . º ºf, º," º - i º * º º º º | * * º º SURF-BATHING ON SYDNEY'S PACIFIC OCEAN BEACHES, AT MANLY AND COOGEE. AVERAGE SUMMER TEMPERATURE AT SYDNEY, 71 DEGREES: WINTER, 54 DEGREES. BREAKERS AT CRONULLA BEACH, NEAR SYDNEY NEW SouTH WALES. SYDNEY AND SUBURBS COVER AN AREA OF 91,220 ACRES. º º - ºffſ MACQUARIE-STREET AND BRIDGE-STREET LOOKING EAST, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY MUNICIPAL TAXATION AVERAGES 1s. 4d. IN THE L ON THE ANNUAL VALUE. |- ， Iſºſſſſſſſſſ！！！ |× |- ）ſae º ：|-ſººſ:|，…） （~~~~.ſ'，- | – . *ael …，|× ſae|- ， , . · · · · · · - ſſſſſſſſſſſſſſſſ-- ºffſ， =~~~~ā. SYDNEY, THE ROYAL, EXCHANGE, PITT-STREET, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY BOTANIC GARDENS COVER 60 ACRES ON THE SOUTHERN SHORE OF PORT JACKSON. IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, THE PARKS OF SYDNEY AND SUBURBS HAVE AN AREA OF NEARLY 4,000 ACRES ------- sºlº **ER ºvel cºe. sº Prºmº º WYNYARD-SQUARE, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES WITH A : - AT SYDNEY POST OFFICE, 50,000,000 LETTERS ARE DEALT WITH ANNUALLY. mi | || | lullûm. ºf º º º - :*: ; ; ; ; ; THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY WAS FOUNDED IN 1788, AND INCORPORATED IN 1842. QUEEN VICTORIA MARKETS, EQUITABLE BUILDING, AND Government TOURIST BUREAU, SYDNEY, NEW, SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY IS SURROUNDED WITH DELIGHTFUL HOLIDAY RESORTS. - - Nº. - - - º º * - - º , ºº ºl º - * - - º - - - tº º - - - - - - - - - º º - -- - - - - º - -- º - - - º - - - - A º - - -- - - - * - _ - - ºf - wº - - - - - - - _{ - - - - - - *- - - - --- - - - - - - - - - 2. AN: OCEAN BEACH AT NEWPORT A WATERSIDE RESORT NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. THE CLIMATE OF SYDNEY IS AS MILD AS AT BARCELONA, TOULON, OR NAPLES. VIEW FROM BUSHRANGER'S HILL NEWPORT, LOOKING TowARDS MANLY, NEW SouTH walEs. THE CONFIGURATION OF SYDNEY ENSURES A NATURALLY PERFECT DRAINAGE SYSTEM. SoME SYDNEY STATUES:-1. QUEEN VICTORIA; 2, CAPTAIN cook; 3. GovePNOR BOUR KE; 4. ROBERT BURNS, THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY AT SYDNEY CONTAINS 1,105 PICTURES. NATIONAL * - A R T ~~ THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY SOUTH wing), SYDNEY, NEW souTH wales. A NATIONAL PARK OF 33,720 ACRES IS SITUATED WITHIN AN HOUR OF SYDNEY. SCENES IN NATIONAL PARK NEAR SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES. KURING-GAI CHASE INCLUDING 35,300 ACREs, LIES 20 MILES TO THE NORTH OF SYDNEY. | - - - - - A SCENE IN Pl"TTWATER KURING-GAI CHASE A GREAT NATIONAL RESERVE NEAR SYDNEY. SYDNEY HAS 75 MILES OF ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS, ALL OWNED BY THE STATE. * º - - KING-STREET, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. LOOKING EAST AND WEST. MARKET-STREET AND PYRMONT BRIDGE. SYDNEY HAS EIGHTY-SEVEN NEWSPAPERS, INCLUDING SIX DAILY AND THIRTY-SEVEN WEEKLY. SOME SYDNEY THOROUGHFARES – LOFTUS-STREET MARTIN-PLACE, AND YORK-STREET. SYDNEY'S MAGNIFICENT CLIMATE ADMITS OF HEALTHY OUT-DOOR LIFE ºl- Photograph by Hall & Co., Sudney. A SALLING RACE OFF MOSMAN'S BAY, SYDNEY HARBOUR, NEW SOUTH WALES. Sº Dº ºr from Bradley's Head. ',_. · w r _ -- » * ^ º - · • •' s. - ^ - • 2- : * - --- ^ J - - • - ' :::- » - : - #- , -- 1. - -; s . :--s ... #- - ... ». | ºs ;U N L3 º t #r#A 3rY. 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