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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15773, 14 December 1916, Page 4

"We fail to mutch beauty with beauty,"' complained Professor Irvine, of Sydney, when he.treated the question of town-planning from an idealistic standpoint in the course of a lecture J to members of the R-oy&l Society in that city last week. Man 6cemed to bo oblivious to the beauties of Nature, and lie continued to besmirch the landscape by constructing sordid structures, ho said. Sydney was one of the most beautiful sitoe for a great city, but its citizens had failed to rnatcli beauty with beiuty. "We who call ourselves citizens are principally to blame," continued the lecturer. "Woodland and heath, outside the city proper, disappear before the advancing suburban villages. In a country of brave men and women none are brave enough to . get f.wav from the stereotyped/' The ' correct civic spirit was not "present. In the primeval days we built with more simplicity and dignity than we did today. Our buildings often expressed nothing beyond the designer's want of skill. Business men made a-ather for serviceableness than for the jesthetic value of their buildings. The net result was a city with little charm or distinction. It was a scandal that Australia has had no school of architecture. The commercial community was conservative, and in the meantime the idealist starved. i SORES AND SKIN TROUBLES Positively cured by Golden Valley Ointment. "Chemists and stores. Golden .Valley Proprietary, Box 402. Christi church- 1