Passing of Old Sydney.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1924, Page 4

Passing of Old Sydney.

SYDNEY, March G,

It is authoritatively estimated that the reconstruction work proceeding in Sydney at the moment represents some tiling Uike £1,090,000. lb must be all that and more. The regulation height for buildings is 130 ft, and not a tew of the new structures are reaching up to the maximum. Day and night workmen are delving- into the earth for the new underground railway, and the explosions suggest something of the sinister aspects of a battle. On the northern side of the harbour, whore the railway will link up with the bridge, the incessant blasting is so shaking the nerves of some of the neighbouring flat-dwellers that they are seeking fresh quarters: Windows rattle, residents blast the blasters, but the work goes on. Old Sydney is passing. A new and more modern city is towering into the sky and spreading itself out everywhere. Even the massiveness of the proposed harbour bridge is not properly appreciated. It is said that Union House, one of the city’s skyscrapers, would go comfortably under the roadway of tin* bridge, if they wore alongside. Jt will he a new and strange Sydney in another decade. One of the most imposing buildings going up is that for the ‘•Sydney Morning Herald” on the site of the old building. Graced by a tower, which in turn will he surmounted by a cupola, it will be a magnificent structure, but will not be completed till 1925.