HOTEL FOR A SONG.
MAKING WAY FOR SYDNEY BRIDGE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 19. The sale by auction for £3BO of one of Sydney’s most palatial and biggest hotels, the Grosvenor, which many New Zealand visitors patronised, is only one of many illustrations of the big changes that are being made in preparation for the day, not now so very far distant, when the massive and proud arch will, Colossus-like, bestride Sydney Harbour. There is, of course, a catch in the sale of the Grosvenor at £3BO. It has to be demolished within three months, the land being required both for the bridge and the city railway. The man who bought the Grosvenor, a doctor, does not at the moment know precisely what he is going to do with the towering structure, but it is quite likely that it will bo re-erected in one of the suburbs as flats cv as a big hoarding house. Unfortunately for the new owner, the license for the hotel does not go with the sale. Some one at the auction had the audacity to make a hid of £SO for the place, for many years one of the landmarks of what is known as Church Hill. In the preparations for the bridge, sentiment has had to he ruthlessly disregarded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20472, 28 July 1928, Page 22
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