ILL-PLANNED SYDNEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 221, 18 September 1928, Page 3

ILL-PLANNED SYDNEY

SIR JOHN SULMAN’S VIEWS “If we wanted to make a perfect city of Sydney we should have to pull it down and completely rebuild Sydney. That, of course, would be impossible.” This statement was made by Sir John Sulman t of the Town-planning Association, to members of the Legacy Club in Sydney last week. Sir John declared that there were certainly not enough parks and playgrounds in Sydney either for adults or children. Something had been done to abolish slums, but he considered that the city administrators had not gone far enough. When one lot of slum dwellings was removed in- one portion of the city there was a tendency for the former occupants to remove to another lot of slums in a different area. Sir Thomas Mitchell, an early Sur-veyor-General in Sydney, was a farsighted and able man. he who would have made Sydney a far better city if he had been permitted.