Highlights of ihe carnival programme include the British Empire Games from February 5 to 12, page-entry and a regatta on Sydney Herbour on January 26; a Venetian Carnival on the harbour on January 29; international lawn tennis from January 31 to February 5; naval, military and air force parades, reviews and tattoos on January 29, February 4 and April 25 and 26; rifle-shooting competitions for £10,500 prize money from February 5 to 1: big-game angling competitions for £1,000 in trophies from January 1 to April 23; Royal Agricultural Show and All-Australian Exhibition from April 9 to 20; Australian Jockey Club displays, international golf, cricket, bowls and swimming, a national musical festival, band championships, conventions and conferences, and many other events of a sporting, educational, cultural or entertaining character are also included.
And Canberra, the Federal Capital, which is growing up on modern lines, and promises to become a great cultural centre, lies in a vast amphitheatre in the foothills of the Australian Alps, 200 miles south of Sydney, a garden city of wattle blossom, of flowering peaches, of long avenues of decorative trees, of white buildings, of thousands of tulips to transform its wide, green spaces during the springtime "of the year.
Far apart are Hobart and Darwin, the former the capital of the island State of Tasmania, the other of the Northern Territory and now Australia's front door for aerial transport. Hobart, on the wide and beautiful Derwent at the foot of lofty Int. Wellington, with oaks and elms and poplars, its century-old homes and its memories of the past, has an air of Old England, Rolling wooded hills, the deep river opening out into a wide bay, provide a setting of rare beauty.
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