SYDNEY’S GROWTH

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2298, 17 November 1925, Page 4

SYDNEY’S GROWTH

HOUSING PROBLEM. SYDNEY, November 5 The provision of 14,000 new' buildings. the majority of them cottages, in the city estimates for the current year, is looked upon as an indication in some quarters that flats in Sydney are not quite as popular to.day as they have been during the last few years, and that the tendency is for people cither to own their own homes or to live in ordinary houses. While, of course, the large and more luxurious fiats will always find tenants anions those to whom a big rent presents no problem, the construction of the city railway and its extensions will have a tendency to take more people Into tlie outer suburbs, and into their own homes. Places which are now a few miles beyond extending suburbs; and which to-day are practically unknown will assume a new Importance when, by railway, people can be brought from them, not merely to the Central Railway Station, but into the very heart of the city. One section of the city, railway will be ready for trafficsome time next year. The railway when completed will completely circle the city, underground, of course The western section of it, which wll carry, as well as other traffic, the whole of the northern suburbs traffic across the harbour bridge, will shortly be commenced, although it is not likely to be completed before the bridge is built, and it may be later if | the powers that be do not keep Dr ;Bradfield th e chief engineer, liberally [supplied with the necessary - funds. One [of Sydney’s main underground stations will b e in George street, in front of the Town Hall and St. Andrew's iCathedral. This neighbourhood hat ja somewhat grisly interest, for check | by jowl with the proposed station was jone of Sydney’s earliest cemeteries.