AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17985, 10 January 1922, Page 7

AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL.

PROGRESS OF CANBERRA,,

TxIANSTER IN THREE YEARS. fFBOM CUE OWN OOBBBSPOKDrora.] SYDNEY, Jan. 6It is expected thai at the present rate of progress of the construction of tho Federal capital at Canberra, the Australian Parliament will bo installed there by 1925. The present activity is due to the work of the Advisory Committee, a body of experts which is advising the Ministry as io the most efficient means by which the capital may be transferred to Canberra on the basis of the plan prepared by Mr. W. B. Griffin, the architect, whose design for the capital won in a w.rcld-wide competition. The plan provides for three the first, of which will be completed within three years, by which time it will be possible for the Parliament and the nucleus of the central administration of the Commonwealth Government to be established in the territory. The first stage contemplates a population of 6000. Although the building which will first house the legislators is described as a temporary Parliament House, it will be more pretentious and comfortable than any other Parliament House in Australia. The prospect of the transfer of the capital to Canberra has brought forth much opposition from the press of Melbourne, which has for so long enjoyed the prestige and the advantage of being the centre of Commonwealth administration.