GREATER SYDNEY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18343, 28 March 1925, Page 16

GREATER SYDNEY.

LABOUR PROJECTS RETARD SCHEME. (mo* our ovrw corbbspondent.) 'SYDNEY, March 19. Tho Greater Brisbane scheme, as the first experiment in Australia of local government on a big scale, fc being watched with close interest in this State. Tho metropolis of Sydney is especially interested in the jjeform, "because of the long-talked-of proposal to constitute a Greater Sydney. Supporters of the schoW, while they agree in principle, differ as to the general lines that a Greater Sydney should follow. It-is suggested, for example,' that it should take over the trams, the electric light, the "Water- Board, and all the communal services of the metropolitan area. Greater Sydney, with such functions and such boundaries within its control, would, it is estimated, have a population equal to that of Queensland and Tasmania under its control. Its revemie would be approximately five times that of the Kingdom of England in the days of Elizabeth. Just at the moment, however,' Labour aldermen's wild schemes in the city itself are serving to focus .attention upon civic government within Sydney itself, to the exclusion of any. broader municipal projects. With' the Beform Party in the Council utterly impotent to stem some of these adventures—it can register a protest and.that is all—an agitation has been revived for the dissolution of the City Council, and for the appointment of a Commission to govern the eity in a sano, moderate, and businesslike wny.