SYDNEY'S NEW POWER-HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1925, Page 9

SYDNEY'S NEW POWER-HOUSE

. After a long':and itormy controYeriy, in which it Bet at defiance; the previoti* State Government, the City Council i»:■■' ; proceeding.; with' tie erection of its new;. power-hotue — one ,of the biggeet Bchemeg, involving about £5,000,0(», in the hUtory of civic: government in. Anatralia: ■ Bunnerong Point, on which the main building'wfllttand, it oppodt* tia landing place of Captain Oook, at Botany Bay. Except for a few: weak-end,; ' "ihantiea" tha land ii virtually in the game condition a» when Cook cart anchor then 165 yean ago.: Thi councilwill have control of mcr« ihaa 70 acraj for the purposes of the power-boo»», It haa been promised, either the freehold of the land or a lease in perpetofty. With tha Labour Government now at rU' back, the council, controlled by Labonr aldermen, <xa have whicKcw o( Umm tennrea soita it The immau* plant will have double the geoefating pow«r of the present power-hona« at Pyrnvmi. It ia beliered that H will'generate ear^ rent go »conomfcaUjr that it will b« cheaper to djacontiinu operation at Pyrmdnt, even though it mar mean the: idlenen of that plant, which will then stand in the council'i book* a« an aaiet worth more than £2,000,000. When the new power-house bl in fill awing ft will employ about 150 men on each of th* three daUy ahifta, or to all about 460 men. Another of the . coQndTi proposali U to acquire land m the rlctthy for the porpoM of araeting houet for the employee* at the power-hooee. Th« plant will be contignooa to aome of Bydneyi' biggest induiiarial areu, and Inm these large: demand* for: eledsripity forpower purpoiei a-e anticipated. Tha aldermen repreaenting th» BUform party would like to hare the acheme carried out by contract, although they an not.' likely to convert the Labour caucu» ta that Tiawpoint. ; *'..''