TOWN PLANNING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8653, 11 February 1914, Page 8

TOWN PLANNING

‘ AUTHORITY TO VISIT NEW ZEAland. LONDON, December 26. The >,.announcement;,is, made this ■week that the. British Association for tho Advancement of Science, acting on- tho suggestion of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, has invited Mr W. B. Davidge to address thorn on town-planning whilst in Australia. in August next. Mt- Davidge will give two lectures in the Economic Section, due at Melbourne, the other at Sydney. ~ . „ , In the meantime, the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association is sending, Mr Cluu tcs C. Read©, organiser of tlie Australasian. town-planning tour, 1914, to Australia and New Zealand early in* the year in order to make the ’necessary arrangement for a series of lantern lectures in tho principal centres. These lectures will be undertaken jointly by Mr Davidge and Air Read©, subsequent to the meetings of tho British Association. Tho, ..New, Zealand lectures will he given in July. The ■ co-operation of the local authorities, kindred, societies and public men is to bo invited and an effort made to form committees in the various centres with a ' view •to taking the fullest advantages of Mr Davidge’s presence whilst ho is iu the Pacific. As a distinguished member of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, Mr Davidge has consented to deliver the subsequent lectures without fee or charge other than the expenses entailed by his stay. Mr Davidge , holds the distinction, almost unique in England, of being at the sarno time an architect, a chartered surveyor, and a’ qualified civil engineer. ’