A "MASTER PLAN"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 62, 14 March 1944, Page 4

A "MASTER PLAN"

SCHEMES FOR SYDNEY

DEVELOPMENT AFTER WAR

(0.c.) SYDNEY, March 10. There was talk in the Sunday papers this week of a master plan being prepared for post-war Sydney. Some of the main projects mentioned were the King's Cross tunnel from Woolloomooloo to Rushcutters to relieve the terrific pressure of traffic at Kings Cross; the eastern suburbs underground railway to the eastern beaches; a music "shell" and an open air cafe in Hyde Park; a sports ground at Moore Park on the lines of the Berlin Olympiad; playgrounds, kindergartens, day nurseries and baby health centres; city swimming baths; and a new city municipal lending library building to include a municipal art gallery and possibly a municipal theatre. Certainly something will have to be done to cope with Sydney's evergrowing population. At present, it is apparently well over one and a half million people, for the Minister of Customs, Senator Keane when stating that the acute beer shortage would be looked into, said that by 200,000, excluding Allied servicemen, since the outbreak of war— Sydney's population had increased and at the beginning of the war Sydney's population was well over 1,300,000. The accommodation position has become so acute that, according to the Rev. S. M. Mitchell, of Five Dock, people are even telephoning the bereaved as soon as they see a death notice in the paper. It is also stated that heartless traders, probably black marketeers, also ring up the bereaved asking if there will be knything for sale.

Among wartime substitutes being passed off on civilians is Victorian §ummy shark, which is selling in ydney as "golden flake," "golden fillet" or "flake" at 2/9 a lb. It is said that it "resembles New Zealand blue cod or Scotch haddock."