Used is Australian Sydney. Australia, Aug. 19.
Flying northward today over a series of smooth beaches, roc wooded headlands and the broad, irregular estuary of the Hawkesbury River, which recalled the delightful waters that distinguish Stockholm, one had glimpses of Australia's war effort when the plane dropped gently down near Newcastle, the Australian steel centre, and later landed at a recently expanded aerodrome of the Royal Australian Air Force at Richmond, states the correspondent of the "New York Times."
It is winter here, but seen from the air the rectangular farms cut from the forest were green, and the ubiquitous gum or eucalyptus trees formed dark green masses on the hills and plains while blue mountains, which really looked blue, marked. the horizon to the West.
Except for somewhat similar functions, Newcastle, New South Wales, forms a striking' contrast to New. castle-on-Tyne. Instead of the dingy. slummy towns stretching along the banks of the Tyne, which recently provided a horrible example of a depressed area, this Newcastle's bungalows with red roofs sprawl unconstrained and uncongested over a broad area near the clean seashore.
Smoke Pall is Absent The pall of smoke and soot that normally hangs over England's black country and northern industrial regions has no counterpart here. Steel is made not far from the forests, which for some reason the Australians call "the bush." New castle must be the greenest steel in the world, even greener than Saarbruecken.
It has also—according to those who ought to know—one of the most efficient all-round steel works in the world, producing some million of tons of steel ingots presents what one engineer called a cross between British and American methods, having drawn upon the ex perience and facilities of both countries for its installations and processes.
In this as in other respects, Australian' eyes have been turned toward the United States, and this is why they know America far better than the British do.
Visitors today saw some of those gigantic ingots, weighing several tons, pushed about in a red hot state and pressed and rolled in what to the lay eye seemed an efficient manner. They saw ships unloading iron 63 per cent. pure from the "Iron Knob" 1,200 miles away in Western Australia, and the steel skeleton of what will be a plant for ferry-alloys. The iron used is all Australian. All the coal comes from twenty miles away.
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