and close relatives. It has no romantic significance at all but the chocolate with the name of hon-mei which is specifically bought for a boy friend, beloved or husband and is a gift stimulated by romance. Then after one month later it is the turn of the men to give in return. It is March 14th (the White Day). Australia In Australia during the gold rush, miners who were flushed with new found wealth from the Ballarat mines were willing to pay a pricey sum for elaborate valentines. Merchants in Australia would send orders of a thousand pounds at a time. The most extravagant of valentines were made of a satin cushion, perfumed, ornately designed with flowers, colored shells, and would also have a taxidermy humming bird or bird of paradise adorning it. This was all contained in a neatly decorated box which was considered of high standing, fashionable and most expensive.
needs. Many raw materials needed for industry are available in the country but it is upon the development of power that Australia has made her rapid industrial expansion. The chief source of power is coal mined in the Sydney Coal Basin.Newcastle is the largest provincial town in Australia and Wollongong with Port Kembia the second. Sydney produces metal goods, chemicals, cloth, electrical equipment, building and household goods and foodstuff. Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo have similar industries to those of Sydney and also make motor- cars and agricultural machinery. Electricity is generated in power stations burning brown coal from the huge open cut workings at Yallourn. Hydro-electricity provides an increasing amount of Australia's power and Tasmania generates more than half of it. Industries requiring much electricity zinc, aluminium and paper industries for example, are important in Tasmania.