TOWN PLANNING.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 125, 27 May 1919, Page 9

TOWN PLANNING.

WORKERS' HOME DESIGNS. At the Town Planning Conference, held in Wellington last week, Mrs. Arthur Hyers read an interesting paper dealing with the aspects of " Homes for Workerg: Their Fittings and Furniture." In her address, Mrs. Myers made a plea for scientifically planned workers' homes, complete with all such built-in fittings as would help to ensure less work and greater enjoyment of the home. Referring to communal ideas, which have been tried with success at Home, during the war, the speaker remarked that central institutions for the supply of hot water and the establishment of small communal washhouses would tend greatly to reduce individual labour on the part of housewives. '-"The greatest help to all who have the responsibility of the making of a home." pointed out Mrs. Myers, "especially in this country of sorelyHeeded and much lacking domestic help, would, of course, be the building of our houses on common-sense lines, with a view to the elimination of a lot of useless work/ The home being the most importan factor in our social system, it was important that both the State and the municipality should take a keener interest and closer concern than had been done in the past, in the provision nf well-built and airy housing accommodation for the mass of the People, at reasonable rentals. In conclusion. Mrs. Myers remarked that with the establishment of adequate housing themes and the adoption of every possible libouri-avinp- appliance, the acute dearth of domestic assistance would Prove itself to be another problem satisfactorily solved.