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FAMM Convention 2014 - Update 4inWonderful! Wonderful! Wollongongby Wollongong FAMM Convention Committee31 March 2014 to 4 April 2014A DELlGHTFUL HOLIDAY RESORT“The residents of the city and the “backblocks” often sigh when reading of the picturesquebeauty of the tourist resorts of New Zealand and Tasmania, over thefact that for various reasons they cannot visit these resorts when their annualholiday falls due, and consequently they revisit the same old resorts year afteryear, and as a result do not reap that benefit which fresh scenes and surroundingsare known to bring. For instance, at our own very doors we have one of themost, delightful holiday resorts which is not availed of as it should be—I referto Wollongong.”So exclaimed the writer to the Forbes Times on Saturday the 20th of July 1912.Also reported in that same newspaper article were the observations of “that famousauthor”, Mr David Christie Murray, who commented on the view from thetop of Bulli Pass:"The precipice overhangs, and that mere reflection seems to make the groundunstable. Below to the front and left and right lies the sea, a scene of most delicateazure fading on the horizon into palest turquoise. The sands are golden andcurved into innumerable bays. A line of white foam following the delicate outlineof the shore breaks utterly unheard away and away; and away to the rightwaves the most undulating triple line of blue and white and gold until they allPage 10 AUSTRALIAN FILM & VIDEO—VOL 20 WINTER 2013