THE PORT OF SYDNEY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 14 November 1928, Page 4

THE PORT OF SYDNEY

The need for ensuring space for the physical expansion of an important seaI port is illustrated bv the history of Sydney. “When ail is said and done, it is | as" a seaport that this great city lias [grown to "its present wealth and importance in Australia, and upon its value as a seaport will its prosperity depend in the future,” says the "Sydney Homing Herald.” “For a long time Sydney Cove was sufficient for maritime commercecarriers, and planks run out from ships’ sides on to the banks had to satisfy wharfside demands. Then Darling Harbour had to be taken info trading service, anti many Sydney citizens still remember the old Darling Harbour wharves of the nineties, when each shipping company built its own, bow and where it liked or could, and road connections between those wharfs were chaotic. In 1901 the Sydney Harbour Trust was constituted f.o biirtg Sydney port into order, and the port foreshores up to high-water mark were placed under its authority. The trust set. out on a long programme of rebuilding old wharves and constructing new ones. Miller’s Point, Woolloornooloo, and the outer half of Darlii-.g Harbour hear witness to some of that labour. The port has spread over Pyrrn'ont Bay and across to Glebe Island, and both these areas are unrecognisable to-day to any eye which has not. seen them since the beginning of the century. The time has come for further extension, and the evidence prepared by the Harbour Trust for the development- in the immediate future of Blackwattle and i Rozelle Bays for oversea- shipping is irrefutable. The whole (rend of Sydney’s development points in the same direction, and other necessities besides that for more wharf space are concerned in the remodelling of the old residential areas ol the Glebe and Balmain.