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a number of desirable resorts. Perhaps the ideal 

 holiday for an Australian is a visit to New Zea- 

 land, with a sea voyage of twelve hundred miles, 

 and a change to a country unlike his own in every 

 particular. Or he may journey inland and spend 

 his vacation in the bush, which offers a round of 

 riding, driving, and shooting. Dotted around the 

 Australian coast are watering-places which com- 

 bine the attractions of the seaside with those of 

 the country, so that the holiday-maker may picnic 

 in the fastnesses of the fern-tree gullies on one 

 day, and spend the next in fishing on the schnap- 

 per-grounds of the open ocean. 



It will be apparent from even this slight outline 

 that the life of the moneyed and professional 

 classes in an Australian capital city differs but 

 slightly from that of the same classes in Great 

 Britain. They have adopted a shorter and more 

 strenuous business day, and have utilised the ex- 

 perience of the Old World in obviating many of 

 the inconveniences unavoidable in the life of cities 

 which have grown by gradual stages through a 

 course of centuries. Convenience of travelling 

 facilities has permitted the growth of the suburbs 

 outwards, and so given an air of spaciousness to 

 even the most commonplace of the residential 

 quarters. The provisions made for parks and 

 open spaces are liberal, and the Australian citizen 

 takes an interest and a pride in the many public 

 gardens and playing-grounds with which his city 

 has been furnished. For these reasons, and be- 



