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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19317, 1 November 1924, Page 7

The outcry raised in England and id Scotland against the practice of broadcasting divine services is being re-echoed in (Sydney, on the ground that it diminishes greatly ’ attendance at the Sunday evening service, and that it provides man and also women with another argument why they don't go to church. St. Mark’s, Darling Point, one of Sydney’s most fashionable churches in one of its most aristocratic quarters, has (ouy correspondent writes) , been broadcasting .its service for some time now, along with a few other churches of loss circumstance, in a worldly sense. Now-., there is an outcry about the practice, hut the protest has revealed that wireless fat church has its protagonists as well as opponents. The Rev. H. N. Baker, M.A., • a prominent Anglican minister, says tie church can no more escape the mflasno* i of wireless than can the rest of the community. A little thought, he says, would i show that the falling off at church would j not be a sufficient reason to xnako it oppose ; (ho new venture. Sydney is being architecturally transformed. Old places that have so far defied time—many of them would probably stand for another century if left alone—are , being torn down : to bo supplanted in every direction by massive, towering buildings that are the pride and the glory of the modern architect. Among these imposing places (writes our correspondent) one comes across some remarkable stmotures. One building going up in the heart of the city in Oastlereagh street will suggest to the imaginative, and, in a figurative sense, the lanky, attenuated proportions of a thin man who declines to be jostled out by more massive persona j looking for a piece in the sun. With a'• frontage of only 16 feet, the cost of which | was about £1550 a foot, it will with its seven storeys have a height sue times as \ great as its frontage. The architects claim e that it will probably have more reinforcement to fhe cubic yard than any other jj structure in Sydney. The building is esti- v" mated to cost £20,000, which, considered .! with tie £25,000 paid for the land, gives • the improved ovpital value per foot about; : £2600. —“What’s fhe tof", "Just twelve,". thought ft wa* more than flat," *7fs Bevwj more in these parts, Alter tint It hqgjwl again at ««." ri:. ■.J ' * “ ’’l .. ‘i