FACTORIES BUT NO DIRT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11231, 21 March 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

FACTORIES BUT NO DIRT.

It is interesting to know that it is possible for a city of 208,000 inhabitants, and mostly factory employees, to be free from dirt and noise. This is the case witlr the Japanese town of Nagoya, says Mr A. H. Edwards, the author of "Kakemono." It is a town full of porcelain and fan factories, cloisonne works, and cotton mills. The gateway of the cloisonne works leads down a wooden passage into a tiny court— a garden set round with the workshops of the factory. ' It is not larger than the lawn of a suburban house, but the skill of a- Japanese gardener has planted a. whole moun. tainsidc with forests of pine and bamboo, has spanned with an arching, bridge the stone-grey stream at the mountain's foot. . From inside the tiny matted rooms, no bigger than bathing-boxes, which shut in three sides of the garden, the illusion is complete. And the shade and coojness of the imaginary forest and stream bring a sense of calmness and repose, of quiet peace and beauty, to all the many workers of the factory. It is a living landcscape growing unspoiled in the heart of a work.shis in the centre of a manufacturing city. It is a town of sunny streets and pure fresh air, whose trees are green.