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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19847, 23 May 1927, Page 7

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BUILDINGS AND ROOMS AMERICAN IDEAS OF CITY ORGANISATION. (Special to “Chronicle.”) WELLINGTON, May 22. Simplification of city organisation is the plea of Mr A. R. Entrican, engineer to the State Forest Service, who has just returned to the Dominion from a trip abroad. Ln Australia, says Mr Entrican, the American plan of numbering rooms n large buildings has been adopted. All the rooms on the first floor are numbered in the first hundred, the rooms on the second floor are in the second hundred, and so on, the floor on which any room is placed being readily found from its number. Tenants’ names are also ranged in strictly alphabetical order. Another American idea to simplify tho search for a particular build'ng, now likely to be adopted by Australian cities, is block numbering. In this, commencing from one end of the city, all buildings in each block are numbered in separate hundreds, and thus a building numbered 404 would be the fourth building in the fourth block on on the right hand side of the street.