MODEL GARDEN CITY
PROSPEROUS POWELL RIVER.
DEPRESSION LIGHTLY FELT.
(N.Z. Herald Correspondent.) Vancouver, Sept. 28. ■ Scarcely 20 years old, a model rural city of 5000 souls has been built at Powell River, on the British Columbia coast, where newsprint now used in many British countries, North and South America, is manufactured. Designed by a Scottish architect, Powell ■River is a garden city that comprises more communal utilities than any industrial centre on this continent. Settlement has overflowed the company’s property, and a prosperous farming community is now growing up, to supply the food needs of the industrial folk. * The hand of depression has rested lightly on dwellers of this favoured city of the north, as the authorities were able to control the supply of labour and distribute it to uniform benefit. The industry is working at 70 per cent, capacity, while many of the big pulp and paper mills in Eastern Canada have been obliged to work with skeleton crews or to close down.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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164MODEL GARDEN CITY Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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