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Point and the head of Darling Harbour to allow for a 

 complete remodelling of the approaches, as well as the 

 wharfage, and in 1901 the Sydney Harbour Trust was con- 

 stituted and given control of the port. 



When the Harbour Trust assumed control, the concrete 

 sea wall at Darling Island was in course of construction, 

 the eastern wall having been completed; the western and 

 northern walls were carried out by them, and cargo sheds 

 constructed for over-sea service as speedily as possible. 

 A wharf at the north-eastern side of Woolloomooloo Bay, 

 which had been commenced by the Public Works Depart- 

 ment, was also finished. Plans were at once prepared for 

 the remodelling of the wharfage and a roadway for access 

 thereto, running along the foreshore from Circular Quay to 

 the Gas Works, Darling Harbour. This is ultimately to be 

 extended through the Gas Works to the head of Darling 

 Harbour. 



A commencement was made by the Harbour Trust in 

 1901 at Miller's Point, which then consisted of several 

 ramshackle wharves. The first portion of the frontage 

 roadway was opened up between Moore and Munn Streets 

 in 1905, and a wharf 1,080 feet in length constructed along 

 the shore. 



The Trust next proceeded to demolish the old wharfage 

 to the south of Miller's Point and north of the Gas Works, 

 and reconstruct it on up-to-date lines. The frontage road- 

 way was continued to the Gas Works boundary, and the 

 land to the rear of Kent Street entirely remodelled. The 

 wharfage in this vicinity now consists of five jetties, four 

 of which are 500 feet in length by 100 feet in width, and 

 one 600 feet long; four of them having double decked cargo 

 sheds. Further progress is at present blocked by the 

 Gas Works, but this property has been resumed by the 

 Government, and it is expected that the new frontage 



