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♦ PLANNING FOR THE PUBLIC. > "Town-planning is a subject which is receiving more and more attention from the press and people of this country (Australia)," said Mr. W. M. Hughes, late Attorney-General in the Federal Labour Ministry. It is a subject which' vitally concerns all classes, as the free lantern lecture at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening will ' clearly prove. In his preliminary tour of New Zealand, Mr. Charles C. Reade found very pleasing evidence that earnest men were eager to help in a rational town-planning movement, which makes for better citizenship. "It is not only a matter of convenient streets or orderly grouping of buildings," Sir William Lever remarked, last year. "It is fundamentally a matter of sound business principle. A man who has the power and means to order a home for himself will naturally make it comfortable and beautiful. Not every individual present can havo exactly the homo of his heart's desire, but he can make a start towards the ideal. People, in the mass, have the power and the means to order a sane development of their towns; they can demand that the rights of the public shall prevail against the shortsightedness of private speculation and greed." How? The free illustrated lecture will show the way.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 2
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213NOT A FAD Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 2
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