A PLEA FOR SLEEPY HOBART
“Why should not Hobart sot about in earnest to do what Boston, U.S.A., has the ambition of doing within the next seven years—earn and prove a right to the title of ‘The Finest City in the World’?” :\sks the “Hobart Mercury.” “Tasmanians who know j only Tasmania or Australia may not be aware that this is quite within the bounds of possibility. “Vienna is picturesque, Berlin beautiful, Paris fine, Rome intensely interesting, Lucerne lovely, Florence a pearl from the _ Middle Ages, Naples charmingly situated, Amsterdam quaint, Brussels delightful, Cairo a remarkable blend of! ancient and modern. East and West. Not one of these surpasses Hobart in beauty of situation or other soenic and natural advantages ; taking all considerations together, not one of them even equals it. “If Greater Hobart could but have the benefit of civic governors with the breadth of view, the artistic imaginations, and the bold pride in their city that distinguished the men who built some of the grand old cities of the Middle Ages, what might Hobart not -heoomefP-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3483, 7 November 1913, Page 7
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178A PLEA FOR SLEEPY HOBART Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3483, 7 November 1913, Page 7
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