Photograph from Government Publicity Department, Sydney 



MARTIN PLACE, IN SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WAEES 



This Sydney street reminds one of Michigan avenue, Chicago, and the resemblance is 

 carried still further by a similarity in the personality of the two cities. The same enter- 

 prising atmosphere prevails in this Australian metropolis as exists in our own citv at the foot 

 of Lake Michigan. Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, and Melbourne, the capital of : 

 Victoria, vie with each other for commercial supremacy, and in each of them live nearly one- 

 half of the people "of its State — a fact that is deplored by Australian economists, who believe 

 that there should be less congregating in cities and more settling upon the land. 



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