SYDNEY HARBOUR.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 23 December 1924, Page 12

SYDNEY HARBOUR.

♦ A disappearing landmark. / - (raoK otm owh conMßFOin>*nT.) SYDNEY, December 13. More than three years ago, over £500,000 worth of magnificent buildings plant, and wool went up in vile, evilsmelling smoke when the Pastoral Finance Association's warehouse on the northern waterfront of the harbour was destroyed by fire. For weeks, the ruins smouldered to the discomfiture of occupants of neighbouring flats and residences. For months legal difficulties were threshed out by the company's creditors and* shareholders. All the time, the desolated ruins stared across the quay on the city, an eyesore alike to travellers on oversea steamers going to their berths up-harbour, and residents of north side suburbs travelling to and fro on the ferries. Opportunity was taken by civic-spirited citizens to try to save the valuable site for a public reserve. Persuasion waa vainly tried on State and Federal Governments to provide the necessary funds for its purchase. Now the scene is being transformed. Demolishers are at work on the ruins. A tall chimney stack has been levelled by dynamite.

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