PASSING OF OLD SYDNEY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 15 March 1924, Page 13

PASSING OF OLD SYDNEY

It is authoritatively, estimated that the reconstruction work proceeding-, in Sydney at the moment represents something like £4,000,000. Ijt: must •;b'e all that and more. The regulation' height for buildings is 150 feet, and not a few 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, where'the railway will link up with the bridge, the incessant blasting is so shaking, the nerves of some of the neighbouri.ng.rflat; dwellers that they are seeking afresh quarters. Windows rattled, residents blast- the blasters, but the work'-goes-on. Old Sydney is passing. A. new and more modern city is towering, into.jthe sky and spreading itself put . 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 the bridge, if they were alongside.. It will be 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 be surmounted by :a cupola, it will be a magnificent, structure, but will not be completed until 1928.\