Wellington
We
had about 30 hours at Wellington and it was about 28 too long for me.
It rained and blew the whole time and was bitterly cold.
It is a very quaint place with streets similar to Sydney in so much as
they twist and turn all over the place.
The buildings are all small and
nothing higher than four storeys. Bricks are seldom used and there are
very few reinforced concrete buildings. The finest public office is the
Post Office and the poorest the Railway Station. The latter is woefully
small and falling to pieces. It is not as good as
Warialda
or anywhere near it. It puts me in mind of the old Point Station in appearances
only and only has one platform.
We spent the morning looking around the town and in the afternoon took
the tourists bus around the outlying surroundings and drove for 2 hours
for 5/- which was reasonable. There are no homes of any great beauty that
I saw but they certainly have some fine scenery as the town or City rather
is built on the edge of the harbour and is surrounded by high towering
mountains on all sides and I certainly would not like to have to reach
some of their homes if I had a few aboard.
Their trams
are owned by a Corp.'s and are very nice and clean but I think much dearer
than ours. Safety first is their motto alright and they close the blind
side of the tram up so there is no getting on or off the wrong side and
nobody moves from their seat until the tram has stopped. Their harbour
is a very fine one indeed and they try to class it with ours but I still
remain firm for Aussie. Ours is much prettier I think and certainly is
made more use of.
We saw lots of snow on a mountain quite close to Wellington.
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