TOWN PLANNING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 65, 23 April 1914, Page 3

TOWN PLANNING.

The members of the council of the Garden Cities and Town-planning Association met at tlieir offices in London on March 3 for the purpose of saying good-bye to Mr and Mrs Charles C. Reade prior to their departure on March 5 to Australasia, where Mr Reade will begin at once the town-planning and garden city campaign throughout Australia and New Zealand. Mr and Mrs Eeade will be followed later by Mr and Mrs W. R. Davidge. Both Mr Davidge and Mr Reade have been invited to lecture at the meetings of the British Association, whose annual meetings take place in Melbourne and Sydney. Himself a New Zealander, Mr Reade went to England two years ago to study the garden city aspect of town-planning. He took up work in the offices of the Garden Cities and Town-Planning Association on the first daj r of his arrival, and since then has been engaged in helping its work, devoting special attention to the artistic side and the collection of lantern slides, of which the association has now a unique collection on lines that have never been attempted previously. Mr Reade's work in connection with the defeat of the Northern Junction Railway Bill last year won him recognition all over England. For the past six months his study has been concentrated on German town plans and housing problems, with the result that he comes to Australasia with a inind stored with knowledge of the most up-to-date character, and studied from the points on the colonial and knowing this j audiences and the particular problems j that will confront the town-planner in ! Australasia. At the farewell gathering Mr Ewart G. Culpin (the secretary) read letters from Mr Cecil Harmsworth, M.P. (the chairman), the Agent-Gene-j ral for New Zealand, the Acting AgentGeneral for the Commonwealth of Australia, Mr Arthur Myers, M.P., and many others unable to be present, ail bearing testimony to the value of Mr Reade's work, and expressing confidence ! in liia ability to establish the movement in Australia. Mr Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the movement, bore testimony to what Mr Reade had done for the association and the splendid spirit ho had always shown. Mr George L. Pepler, the chairman, voiced the heartiest good wishes of every member of the council and Executive Committee for the voyagers. They had no doubt as to the success of the enterprises. The ideals which had proved practicable at Home would prove of inestimable value in the new countries. A series of presentations was made to Mr and Mrs Reade, and the utmost cordiality was expressed. <