GARDEN CITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 205, 27 August 1912, Page 8

GARDEN CITIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir.—We have heard a great deal about the desirability of creating garden cities, but up to the present all -we knowabout the matter is it will Tequirc a big loan to make a start. Now, take the borough of P-arnell as regards the natural advantages it possesses for a garden city. (Bounded on the cast by the sparkling waters of the Waitcmata, on the south and west by the beautiful Domain, and what do we find, in spite of the Board of Health's advice as regards cleanliness and keeping rats down? In several cases poultry are kept on small allotments, varying in size from 30 to 33 feet by 00 to 80 feet deep, with houses erected on them. The small back yards, insteads of being cultivated with flowers or a vegetable patch, are covered with fowl droppings, breeding vermin and disease, and affording encouragement .for rats. Then, again, in many cases, household refuse is kept in •wooden boxes and kerosene tins, instead of a proper covered dust-bin, according to one of the borough by-laws. Why not compel everyone to observe the laws, and endeavour to beautify and improve on what we already possess. — am, etc., FOR A CAUSE THAT LACKS ASSISTANCE.