SHEARING SHEEP! JIMBOW, WEST QUEENSLAND 



A good shearer will shear one hundred sheep a day and is paid six cents a head. The 

 shearing season begins in July and ends in November. Men come from all parts of the 

 world to become shearers, and they travel from sheep station to sheep station as the tramp 

 printer used to travel from city to city. 



Cardiff, and the Tyne, and in the United 

 States only by New York and Duluth. 



Melbourne's appearance speaks of am- 

 bition and faith in the future and reflects 

 the exciting epochs in the history of 

 Victoria. The groups of government 

 and city buildings are admirably placed 

 and include some imposing structures 

 which rank with those of any American 

 State capital. Railways are convenient, 

 the parks and public gardens are large 

 and numerous, well cared for and largely 

 used. 



Business is concentrated on a relatively 

 small number of blocks bounded bv 



streets 99 feet wide, feeding into park- 

 ways of twice that width, which seem to 

 have been planned to secure fascinating 

 vistas. Although the exaggerated proph- 

 ecies of Melbourne's builders have not 

 become realities, the feeling for great- 

 ness, and order, and convenience has been 

 splendidly expressed. 



Adelaide's unusual plan — a business 

 section surrounded by a zone of 2,000 

 acres of park lands, beyond which are 

 the residential sections — seems designed 

 to put business cares, recreation and quiet 

 home life in separate compartments. The 

 organization of city life to allow for 



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