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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 1 August 1924, Page 5

In the course of an address recently in England, Professor S. D. Adshead, the town-planning authority, deplored the great number,, of roads that were being laid down all over the country without any reference to art in their construction. He said the country was being cut into pieces foy great, broad, black roads that were too wide, and had poor connections. There , were those who scoffed at the old roads as picturesque avenues, where artists" planted trees, but the great need at'present was for tho services and advice of artists in the construction of roads! “The tinie for little wooden churches in both town and country is gone,” said Archbishop Julius in the course of his sermon.at the new church of St. James, Lower Riccarton, on Sunday evening, when complimenting the people of the parish on erecting such a substantial stone building. The archbishop added that wooden churches were not abiding, and the time had come when they should build nobler structures, as- their fathers had done in the Old Land. The previous church in the Lower Riccarton parish had ' been destroyed by fire. “Wooden churches ought to be destroyed by fire or in some other way,” the archbishop added.