SYDNEY'S GROWTH.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16653, 19 November 1925, Page 11

SYDNEY'S GROWTH.

HOUSING PROBLEM. SYDNEY, November 5. The provision of 14,000 new buildings, the majority of them cottages, in the city estimates for the current year, is looked upon as an indication in somo quarters that flats In Sydney are not quite as popular to-day as they have been during the last few years, and that the tendency is for people either to own their own homes or to live in ordinary houses. While, of course, tho large and more luxurious flats will always find tenants among those to whom a big rent presents no problem, the construction of the city railway and its extensions will have a tendency to lake more people into the outer suburbs, and into their own homes. Places which are now a few miles beyond extending suburbs, and which to-day are practically unknown, will assume a new importance when, by railway, people can be brought from them, not merely to the Central Railway Station, but into the very heart of the city. ' One section of the city railway will be ready for traffic some time nest year. The railway when completed will completely circle the city, underground, of course. The western section of it, which will carry, as well as other traffic, the whole of the northern-suburbs traffic across the harbour bridge, will shortly be commenced, although it is noL likely to be completed before the bridge is built, and it may lie later if the authorities do not keep Dr. Bradfield, the chief engineer, liberally supplied with the necessary funds. One of Sydney's main underground stations will be in George Street, in front of the Town Hall and St. Andrew's Cathedral. This neighbourhood has a soinovvltil. gristly interest,, for check by jowl with the proposed station was one of Sydney's earliest cemeteries.