HOTEL FOR A SONG.
MAKING WAY FOR SYDNEY ■ • BRIDGE. SYDNEY, July 19. , ; .The sale by auction for £3BO of one of Sydney’s most palatial and biggest [.hotels, the Grosvenor, which riiany 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 be re-erected in one of the suburbs as flats c- as a big boarding house. Unfortunately for the new owner, the t ?nse for the hoUl does pot go' with the" zsale. Some one at kthe auction had the audacity to make a bid of £5O 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 be ruthlessly disregarded. . ' . T'
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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 32
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