Show A CITY FOR SALE SAlLIE SALEA ABOUT A BOUT every so often Australia gets into L the limelight It has long prided itself on a labor government occasionally verging on the socialistic and J. J Bull seldom interferes interferes interferes inter inter- feres except when called upon to pay the bills when some of the cherished schemes of the parlor pinks go astray A few years ago It occurred to the able minds running the Australian government that they ought to have a capital city which should be a model for tor other governments for all time to come So an appropriate site was selected the sagebrush engineers were set to work and the city of Canberra was created About everything that could be bethought bethought bethought thought of was Incorporated Into this metropolis metropolis me me- including an ornate parl parliament ament ho house se costing millions model hotels costing more millions boulevards civic centers race racetracks racetracks tracks tearooms and anything that the so socIalistic socialistic so- so mind could devise Some was squandered on Canberra Canberra Can Can- berra bena and it was found to be all right ex except except ex- ex nobody wanted to live in it Barring the times when parliament met there was nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing doing Nobody came to the hotels the large forces of ot uniformed help could find nobody nobody nobody no no- body to wait on even when the he statesmen gathered for the annual sessions It ha has been found it costs more to keep up Canberra than anything else on the island And so the leaders of all parties have agreed that the best thing to do is to write it of off as asa asa asa a total loss or if anybody wants to buy it he can have it at a b bargain price |