GARDEN CITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 211, 5 September 1911, Page 2

GARDEN CITIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The inner meaning of the recent cable to the effect that the garden city (English) promoters were casting gl.id eyes on oversea Dominions as a sphere of operations I take to be that insurance companies and the landlords who are selling their estates have offered them Dong-dated deposits, which, with funds gathering from sales of houses and allotments, they wish to employ under the flag, where sound' conditions subsist. The writer visited last August Golder's Green Garden City, and I then jotted down a few notes now transcribed. North Hampstead rates are 6/11 in the £. Workmen's tickets to Afoorgate-street certainly are very ebcap, but a brick house of five rooms nnding on 26ft of frontage, with the tion to buy during 24 years—subject twelve guineas ground rent—costs 0, with the privilege of extinguishing! annual twelve guineas by a payent of £3OO. I conclude the rental is £4:2 per annum for the use of the money, plus rates, a.nd I deduce that two families would have to live in a six-roomed' house, or else the artisan would need to be highly paid. The vvaLla of the estate office Golder's Green were adorned with plans of different houses of the typea •being thsn occupied or building.—l am, i cte -> H.G.