SYDNEY HARBOR BRIDGE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16946, 30 January 1926, Page 7

SYDNEY HARBOR BRIDGE.

PROGRESS OF THE WORK. GREAT CHANGES IN PROSPECT. SYDNEY, Jan. 14. Before long there ougiit to be some outward and tangible signs of progress as far as the Sydney harbor bridge is concerned, for what may be termed the “spade work” at the Dawes Point and Milson’s Point ends—the two points from which the bridge will actually span tho harbor—is rapidly approaching, completion. Otoe street alone, on the city side, at Dawes Point, illustrates the transformation which it is to undergo, and the vast changes that bridge will bring with it. It is Primes Street. A fashionable residential area in the earlier days, it is to have a future as well as a past, for it will eventually become one of the highways of the city, as the main southern approach to one of the biggest bridges in the world. Dawes Point, which was to the old aristocracy of Sydney what Darling Point and Edged iff are to-day , lias been transformed out of recognition. It is ‘ a maze of scaffolding, with huge cranes towering into the sky. Old Milson’s Point, too, is in parts a scene r f desolation. What in that neighborhood was a populous residential area will be re-created before long as an industrial centre, with the big workshops there in full blast for the fabrication of the, bridge steel-work. That these workshops on the water’s edge will hecome a permanency is almost beyond doubt. Already, where Hitherto they were regarded as a, blot, on the harbor, there' is a growing feeling that, even after the bridge is built, they will be an acquisition industrially to the North Rhore. Thus is nature being cheated of the best that is in her repertory by modern materialism.