![]() ![]() This delightful park is a wonderful and restful place to walk and explore. Reaching from Chatswood to Killara and northwards, the aim was to further open up the north shore and provide an alternate route to the winding Pacific Highway. New South Wales received £276,000 of this and with £15,000 of those funds, and another £4,000 from Ku-ring-gai Council, the Eastern Arterial Road was constructed. The Australian Government responded to the suffering by allocating £1,000,000 to the states for unemployment relief. Unemployment soared to 32 per cent by 1932. ![]() “A wind from the river swept through the belt of gum trees on the Crown lands, and sent the young red blood leaping through their veins it played havoc with Judy’s curls, and dyed her brown cheeks a warm red.” Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australiansįast forward from Ethel’s writing of Seven Little Australians to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. ![]() Sandstone pillars, paths and steps adorn the park Selling more than 2 million copies in English, it has been translated into many languages and adapted as a stage play in 1914, into a film in 1939, a BBC series in 1953, a 10-episode ABC series in 1973 and a musical theatre adaptation in 1988. The book has been continually in print for over 100 years. ![]()
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