AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

TOWN 'PLANNING CONFERENCE

XKAY YORK. April 21

The International Regional and City planning Conlereiice. under the stipeivßioii of the American Institute of Architects, opened to-day, seventy-live foreign delegates are attending, ineludin,, Air S. Hurst Seagar. the represenlalit e of the Yew Zcaalnd Government. who lectured on the citv planning developments in the nonunion, which he said, were based largely oil the scheme of garden cities developed bv Ebemcer Howard in England. ' Mr Raymond Unwin, a member ol the British Ministry of Health, addressing the Cotilerente stressed the necessity for the disuersal ot information so that cities could emh have distinctive plans, rather than that all cities should adopt similar plans. Various other speaker- stressed tie nu'i v of ri’i’iniiMl jilnnnins <» preventive against bad lolldiliolis which later have to he rorreeled at

great cost. Sir Edward Lnytens. a British architect. has received the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. I" ,s A. PRESIDENT VISITING CANADA. OTTAWA. April 20. The President of the United States, Air Calvin Coolidge, has promised to come to Canada to unveil a peace monument erected hv Canadians in Stanley Park, Vancouver, the site ol the last notable speech ever made by President Harding a few days before his death. PERTH ICR AllCilC EXPLORATION. OTTAWA, April 2D. Lord Byug proposes an exploration lour over most of northern Canada in August next. He hopes to go to the mouth of the .Mackenzie River, and thence through the Arctic Ocean around Point Barrow, and on through the Behring Straits and home to Canada.