TOWN-PLANNING IDEALS.

Northern Advocate, 29 September 1920, Page 4

TOWN-PLANNING IDEALS.

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Tin- fact that the Governrncnt of tlio Malay States has scoured the services of South Australia's first Government Town-Planner (Mr Charles C. Reade) for a brief period at. a salary of £2000 v year, in addition to all expenses and travelling charges, must cause the people of this State some reflection, says the Adelaide "Ma>l." The day that Mr Eeadc, as the special emissary of the Garden Cities and Town-Plan-ning Association of Great Britain, i landed in Adelaide he was challenged by a leading city alderman to show by picture or proof that anywhere in tihe world th'H'e existed a liner or a more perfect garden city than Adelaide. He accepted the challenge, and .not only illustrated model cities elsewhere, but at his first lecture, in the presence of the then newly-arrived Governor (Sir Henry Gaiway), shocked an audience of leading citizens, showing, picture by I picture, that there were "slums" in Adelaide, represented by numerous small and overcroiwded houses containing more than one family packed away in the back lanes and cul-de-sacs of the city; Mr Eeade's lectures in N"ew Zealand a few years ago gave townplanning a "boost." in this country, and it is hoped by the Wellington association that the 'Government will provide, this session, for the appointment of a Dominion Town-Planner of tihe calibre of Mr Reade.