SYDNEY’S GREAT BRIDGE

Southland Times, Issue 20043, 3 December 1926, Page 5

SYDNEY’S GREAT BRIDGE

PROGRESS OF THE WORK.

Sydney, November 18.

The work of building the massive Sydney Harbour bridge is necessarily a slow job. Now that the task of erecting the span on the city end of the bridge is in progress, the crowds of people who in Sydney never seem to have any necessity to work, and whose chief delight appears to be in watching others work, are filling in their time pleasantly by watching the huge cranes, perched two or three hundred feet above ground, lifting 20-ton pieces of steel-work as if they were timber battens. The first span now in course of construction will be 238 ft. in length. Consequent upon the construction of the city approaches to the bridge, 600 people jn what is known as the historic Rocks area—a place of sinister meaning at night before it was cleaned up and graced by a good class of house—will have to find homes elsewhere. Many families who have resided in the locality for half a century or more will have to pack up. The bridge will mean practically the passing of the Rocks area, just as it has witnessed the effacement of Milson’s Point, on the other side of the harbour, and the obliteration there of many well-established businesses. There are not a few people in Sydney who curse the day when the bridge work started, for it has involved them in pecuniary losses for which they think the Government ought to compensate them.