SCHOOL JOURNAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 4 March 1914, Page 7

SCHOOL JOURNAL

I . earl grey;s appreciation TOWN PLANNING. DUNEDIN, March 3. Touching on education, Earl Grey, interviewed here, referred/ in high. •'er-'Tis of praise to the Dominion school Jdur'K.l, and said that he had induced the Can a : dian Government tti communicate with the (Minister of Education here_ in order to obtain copies of that most valuable publication,, which he felt sure 'must exercise a most, beneficial effect'in the direction of forming the character of the young people p£> New, Zealand. As to the proposed scheme for housI ing the'workers at Home and the abolition of slums, His Lordship _ naid the town'planning scheme now being put.in operation, there, and so lucidly explained "by Dr. Barrett, of Melbourne, has achieved surprising results, having been the means of bringing' into existence betted-, homes clnd- more, healthy finvironment for the workers. He- had been astonished, to hear since his arrival in New Zealand that in some of the principal centres slumdom was in actual existence. If .that were a fact — and he. meant to make searching enquiries as he proceeded northward—ha could not impress too s'trongly on the Government and the people the urgent, necessity for immediately adopting remedial.legislation, whereby they ..would not only remove, but absolutely extirpate, such a foul canker on the 'body politic in a coming country like this, where the condition for the carrying out of town planning was so favourable. Garden! cities should not be uncommon in NewZealand, and the people covild not do better than take a leaf out of Britain s book, and adopt the John Burns Act to her present necessities—"Post'' corres'pondent.