TOWN-PLANNING LEAGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 6

TOWN-PLANNING LEAGUE.

DISFIGURING MT. ALBERT.

FUTURE CITY EXTENSIONS.

Tire executive of the' Auckland Town.

planning League yesterday appointed a deputation to wait upon the Minister for Railways in eference to the Railway Department taking scoria from Mount Albert, in the hope that the Minister will give the public some assurance that depredations on the volcanic hills will be curtailed. Regret was expressed that the City Council had declined to accede to the league's request to preserve the cottage, formerly occupied by the Hon. W. Swainson, in Parnell Park, and the executive reluctantly decided to advise the return of Mr. A. W. Gillies's generous donation for a memorial tablet. An opinion was expressed that competitive designs should be invited by the Government for the laying out of the Orakei area as a garden city on townplanning principles. A deputation from the Auckland Civic League, consisting of Mesdames Aaford, Keesing, and Irwin, suggested that the Hon. G. W. Russell's Town-Planning Bill should provide for a compulsory plan of future extensions of New Zealand cities. The president, Mr. C. J. Parr, M.P.,; thanked the deputation, and suggested that public bodies should be asked to con-; sider the provisions of the Town-Planning. Bill. A conference of Town-Planning Associations would, he added, be held in Wellington shortly, and such provisions as sugeested by the Civic League would be carefully gone into. Meanwhile they must do all they could to educate public opinion on town-planning, and. with combined effort, legislation dealing with it j should be placed on the Statute Book before very long. .