TOWN PLANNING.
Sir,-It is difficult to see how, a good system of town' planning, can be carried out in old-established towns and cities, unless at very great expense. To be efliaent town planning should start with the building of a town and govern its expansion from the beginning. ' The Government would do well to step in, ana overhaul the plans of embryonic townships and budding towns and cities before haphazard buildings are erected.; A point hot to be lost sight of is that we should build in enduring materials. A wooden town cannot be expected to last over half a century, which is a depreciation of 2 per cent, per annum, an. amazing loss when totalled up. Taking Auckland, with its' 20,000 homes, averaging £500 per home, we have a loss of £200,000 per annum and an actual disappearance of value amounting to £10,000,000 in 50 years. This enormous melting away of capital goes on so imperceptibly that it almost passes unnoticed, and the average investor does not realise it. If he did, buildings in wood would be rare indeed. , •si ■'• .;'• h ti Stanley Bay. Petes Ellis.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15557, 14 March 1914, Page 4
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