BIGGEST BRIDGE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18603, 30 January 1926, Page 9

BIGGEST BRIDGE.

PROGRESS AT SYDNEY. (?ROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY," January 14. Before very long now there ought to be some outward and tangible signs oi progress as far as the Sydney Harbour Bridge is, concerned, for what may be termed the "spade work" at the Dawes Point and Milson's Point ends—the tw» points from which the bridge will actually span the "harbour —is rapidly approaching completion. One street alone, on the City side, ab Dawes Point, illustrates, v in the tiausformation which it is to undergo, the vast changes that the bridge will bring with it. It is Princess street. A fashionable residential area in the earlier days, it is to have a future as well as a past, for it will eventually become one of the highways of the City, as the main southern approach to one of the biggest bridges in the world. Dawes Point, which was to the old aristocracy of Sydney what Darling Point and Edgecliff are to-day, has been transformed almost out of recognition. It is a maze of scaffolding, with huge cranes towering into the sky. Old Milson's Point, too, is in parts a scene of desolation. What in that neighbourhood was a populous residential area will be re-created before long as an industrial centre, with the big workshops there in full blast for the fabrication of the bridge steelwork. , That these workshops on the water s edge will become a permanency is almost beyond doubt. Already, where hitherto the v were regarded as a blot on the harbour, there is a growing feeling that even after the bridge is built they wi.l be an acquisition industrially to the North Shore.