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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13730, 22 April 1908, Page 8

- , When the Melbourne Shipping _ Company's steamer Monaro arrived at Sydney • the other morning from Melbourne, Cap- . .lain Leask reported that a passenger named Corrick was missing. He fell overboard soon after the steamer began the trip to Sydney. A bait was immediately lowered from the Monaro, and the engines ■were stopped. A thorough search was , made, but without success, and the steamer -was pUt on her course again. Nothing has . yincc been heard of the missing man, and •it is supposed he was drawn under the big steamer. The occurrence took place at ;A; ; ; ; eight o'clock at night. " Sydney, according to its Lord Mayor, is ■ one of the healthiest cities in the world. This ■'■' notwithstanding the congestion which is tin--..happily. only too apparent in some of the Crowded areas within its boundaries. The great difficulty in the way of accomplishing more in the direction of removing this congestion is found in the extraordinary division of authority between the Government and the municipality. The jurisdiction of the Government is carried to an extent which people in New Zealand, accustomed to then■comparative freedom in the municipalities, have no idea of. The better housing .of the poor was urged by a deputation which interviewed the Lord Mayor (Alderman Thomas Hughes) last week. Cases were instanced of five or six people occupying the ' one room, and it was pointed out. that the time was favourable for the Council to carry out .a long-needed reform. The Lord Mayor replied that he was sorry the councillors oould not do all the deputation urged. They 'had no power to acquire areas for workmen's -•..-. dwellings; but they were not unmindful of this w»nt, and he had made an offer to the ;-'-"' 'Premier (Mr. "Wade) to buy the hole of the Rocks area at a price to be fixed by valuation, :, the Council agreeing to abide by the valuation'if the Government would do thy same. ~;" "The Rocks" it may he remarked parenthetic- ;" ally, is-that part of Sydney for many years '•-: associated .with the class of society known as J. "the push," whose dominion it was by no ■!». '^meant, safe to explore. "The Rocks" area. . hat now been reformed by the Government, ' the rookeries that disfigured'it having been swept v.vay. vhmp : ■ i-^,j-:.-"'S. : i-- .. .', .;•■.-... l-:. -■-■■-"■■■ ■■■■'■ :■.".'■. : .■■•.■