GIRDLE OF GREEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 2 October 1933, Page 7

GIRDLE OF GREEN

9,000,000 PEOPLE INSIDE GREAT LONDON TASK LONDON, August 16. London with a great girdle of green 160 miles in circumference. . This is the mighty project which Major R. Hardy-Syms, the new technical adviser to 1 the Greater London Regional Committee, will tackle when he takes up his appointment at the end of next month. Major Hardy-Syms, a chartered architect, of Gray’s inn, succeeds Sir Raymond Unwin, lie is at present Inspector of Slums at the Ministry of Health. The scheme to enclose London in a green girdle was projected in 1913, but the war held it up. It is one of the sponsored plans of the Greater London Regional Committee, which has been working on the details foi* some years. It, will be Major Hardy-Syms’ task to advise the committee on the future planning of ail area which stretches from Welwyn in the north and Tilbury and Gravesend in the east to Reigato and Guildford in the south and Slough in the west. Special attention will bo given to the decentralisation of London’s industries and the provision of more open spaces. The area which it is proposed to encase in this green girdle will have a 25 miles radius from Charing Cross. It will cover nearly 2000 square miles and contain a population of 9,000,000 people. The idea of encircling London with preen goes hack to the days of Queen Elizabeth, who in 1580 enacted that no new buildings or Houses should be erected within three miles of the gates of London. Charles I added to this proclamation in 1625, and again in 1630. Loudon has grown up since those times, and the three mile limit of Elizabeth's day is now 'stretched out to .25 miles, where it is now proposed to ring London with trees and green fields.

That, sir. fs the only fair way to give payment for results, or credit where credit is due.

After all a. man can only give his best ' effort whether working piecework or.day work, and if he gives of )iia best lie is fully entitled to be paid his 2k per hour. The piecework or contract system is designed to make the men work for what, they receive, and it is right and just that they should do so. But it is quite impracticable for the Unemployment Board to set a fair and just contract price on 80 per cent, of the work that is done by ,1-clief labor, and if such a system is adopted by the Unemployment Hoard it will he found that many men will give of their best, but will not receive 2s per hour, which is what any able-bodied man's very best is worth, and which he should receive. Thanks for your valuable space, sir.— I am, etc'., TUG MAN IN THU STREET.