ANNUAL ADDRESS. VII. 



Parliamentary report, the number is over two hundred and fifty, 

 and many of them were of such a character that they are still in 

 existence. 



Macquarie encouraged the formation of regular streets and 

 modified his original views as to width by making them sixty feet 

 instead of fifty. He also made substantial grants of land to those 

 who built to plans approved by him. Mr. William Greenway was 

 the Civil Engineer of this epoch, and his works include the original 

 Macquarie Light-house (recently pulled down), St. James' Church, 

 the Hyde Park Barracks, the Benevolent Asylum, the Public 

 Instruction Department building, an adjoining building pulled 

 down to make way for the Lands' Office, the Police Court (after- 

 wards the Post Office in George-street), and the Market House 

 (afterwards the Central Police Office, recently pulled down to 

 make way for the Queen Victoria Markets). A host of others are 

 still standing, but many have disappeared with the progress of 

 the State. Two books, containing a number of very neat draw- 

 ings of public works, by Mr. Greenway, together with their bills 

 of quantities, still exist in the Government Architect's Department, 

 and are most interesting records of our early days. There appears 

 to have been a third volume, which has unfortunately been lost. 



Whether Macquarie's ideas were too advanced for his masters 

 in England, or whether Mr. Greenway was too energetic, and 

 produced public works in advance of the demand for them, 

 cannot with certainty be decided now ; but it is certain that on 

 September 25th of the year 1819, Mr. Thomas Bigge arrived from 

 England with the King's Commission, with the result that a great 

 many of the Governor's plans were either modified or thrown out 

 altogether. Bigge considered wooden buildings to be good enough 

 for a convict colony, he stopped all further progress with the 

 cathedral Mr. Greenway had designed for the site at the corner 

 of George and Bathurst-streets, although the foundations were in. 

 The Court House was then being built, as well as St. James 

 Church, the tower and spire of which were added in after 

 years. 



