TOWN PLANNING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXI, 26 January 1911, Page 5

TOWN PLANNING.

LEGISLATION ASKED FOR

BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION

DUNEDIN, Jan. 25. Town planning formed a subject oi discussion at the annual meeting of the Institute of Surveyors to-day, and the following motion was agreed to: "That this meeting recommends for the favorable^ consideration of the Council of the Institute the desirability of legislation in the matter of city building and town planning on the lines of the English

In moving this, Mr C. W. Adams, editor of the Surveyors' Journal, said it was not necessary to go outside of New Zealand for examples of the pernicious results of the system of allowing owners perfect liberty. Every city —Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin—contained instances of the evil wrought, slums being newly created and jerry-building permitted. Drainage was not properly attended to, and after the owner had exercised his own will it was frequently impossible to effect proper drainage. He submitted that New Zealand should establish a lead in this matter over Australian centres, and the Hons. Fowlds and Findlay had, by public utterances, given indications of the support they would give to any scheme of efficient town-planning.