THE NEW DELHI

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 11 May 1912, Page 9

THE NEW DELHI

The world can offer no more fascinating task than the creation of na new city, says the London Guardian, and many a man of creative soul will envy the committee of experts which, under the presidency of Captain Swinton, the chairman of the London County Council, is aboub to design the new administrative city of Delhi. Only once has such a task been carried out on a really great scale, and when the city # of Washington was laid put, its designer was a Frenchman. Sir Christopher Wren's, grandiose plan for the rebuilding of London after the fire was never carried cut—to London's lasting loss. Cap-r tain Swinton and his associates will be more fortunate, and in little more than five years the new city may be cx r pected to have come into being. Before long there will be another opportunity for the town-planner on a great scale, when the new Federal capital of Australia comes to be laid out. The difference between the undisturbed old and the. new official Delhi will be as great as that between, say,, Vienna before the fortifications gave way to the ring, and the,brand new city which is to arise under the Southern Gross.