TOWN-PLANNING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18132, 25 June 1919, Page 6

TOWN-PLANNING.

MEETING AT LINWOOD. • Despite the weather, a good many enthusiasts gutaered in'the xt&V , iestoii (Street hall ia,st night to coDSKier matters relating to town-planning. Tjiq , meeting, winch was heid.under tne aua-.' . pices or the lown-jfianning Association,.'■ and presided over by .Mr H. if 1 .; Herbert, was called in pursuance of thu associations pqucv, initiated at it-ion-mond recently, of forming district coin- . to noip in tlie vvoi'ls:: Mr.'Herbert explained the objects or ! the meeting and the need for tne worn. Mr H. Vueli, Who stated that he liad, been connected with Lewliwortli garden city during-.wie first seven years or. iw. lire, and more particularly with local journal, gave a'uesoi-ipiion of establishment and progress ot th* ""•/**' and ox tne principle ou which J? it 1 *? managed. Since tne war started, no mentioned, three thousand Belgian re/ tugees had found employment m «• 1 'ihe Alaybr tho meeting. -Ho propouiiuod a scheiuO of drainage and houoe-piannmg A or.;j Ohrisremireh and said he tnougut tiiuo Mr uueil snouid be asKed. to give an address, illustrated' by lantern hl.ce.v Before a largo public meeting. , Ho. further suggested that a , certain amount of spice snouid be: procured; m local newspapers eacn week, to oe for town-pwuning • propaganda.

COMMUNAL KITCHENS.

[Faoii Oca CoanffiSPONDENT.}

WELLINGTON, June. 24

With the ooject ot collecting nutiier information tne practical ueveiopniente ox totyU-piahhing, &£ jriuist the honorary oigamsy/ of the recent Town-plaiuung Lonierence, is leaving lor Jingianu. He piuposes to live in various garden cities and industrial villages, so as .to get to tuorougniy. uudeistand the '"in.-iae" management of these places. Housing conditions ►will receive his special attention, and' in this connection . Air JbLuist Meager hopes, to be able to give JNeiv Zeaianders more information about communal kitchen's and hot watei* supplies, as one ot the methods of overcoming the great difficulty in house when uoinestic servants are So scarce. "I have been an advocate of communal- kitchens for, twenty years, but nobody has taken the suDject up in a practical way in New Zealand," remarked Mr Hurst Seager to a representative of the "1/ytteiton Times."Sydney has long been used to fiats, and they have passed through several stages, beginning with the conversion , of lai-ge dwellings into separate apartment lodgings, ajnd then developing into specially designed premises witn self-contained flate. The latest development is the large building of self-con-tained fiats, with a restaurant in the basement for tenants who do not.wish to cook tor themselves. These are fast' superseding the old-fashioned /selfcontained'' flat, and there are haif' a dozen of these restaurant fiat residences in the New South Wales metropolisIf enterprising capitalists put ono up in Wellington, it is safe to say that it would be rushed at once by people who have given up the difficult task of running a house without' help, and are now crowding into incohvenicni boarding-houses, all over tho city.