FREE TOWN-PLANNING LECTURE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14341, 10 July 1914, Page 7

FREE TOWN-PLANNING LECTURE.

“T .wn-j-lanning is a subject which is re etvi.ig m..re and more attention from the I’.ts an.l people of Ansiralasia,” says air \V. JI. Hughes, late AttorneyGee.eral in the Fedeial Ministry. It is a sub eet which vitally concerns all clavos. as the free lantern lec'.ura on Mondav ere .dug, at tl.o Opcia House, by Mr VW I!. Daoldge, F. 5.1., A.1i.1.8.A., A..M I.C.E. (I.andm County Council) v.i 1 j.-ro.e and 1 all the interest and fa.-.ciua-ti ui winch sin rounds this absorbing to;dc. During last year the Garden Cities a> d Town-planning Association of Cieit livltain (of which Mr Davidge is a leading member) received sh.wLs ol' in-

rjui i;s for iiifoi ma'ion and advice from many j art- of the Biitish Umpire, a.-; well a olh -r parts of the world, incimbeg N'ewfonudlaud, Trinidad, India, China, Japan, and Si.n.h America. Town-plan-ning is clearly a world-wid •to ic. a'd it has ma le its greatest advauc.s in Kngla id, G. r.nany, an! I -- ' ■ ■■■■■. a!-o.‘.m ,ica in re;ent years. Mr Da-'i-dge is ex-'option-aliy well iuf->rmc« of the dcvlopmanf* in Europe and America, altogether apart

‘in i! hi:, p;of. -ssi ml u-soeiatioa with '.he British Garden Cities and Town Planning movement. He brings to Wanganui a remarkable collection of slides illustrating the latest phases of the movement, and his lecture here should be listened to with the deepest interest, bearing as it will neon local problems and difficulties in New Zealand cities, aiising from the absence of care and forethought in controlling their growth. Ho will be able to

-now that, as Sir William Lever declared recently to a hi? public gathering in Sydney, it is fundamentally a matter of sound Im.-iness piincijde. Too many people are apl to imagine that the movement is simply a eraze for plan!in? trees, or •riving people so-called “arty” hemes to live in, with oat regard to expenditure of capital. Air Jlavidge will he abb to giro disillusion on tbo.-e points, r.s well as showing liow tl |n general well-being and altrarliven—.s of towns depend primarily upon ordering planning beforehand, and intelligent aniicinalinn of pnhlie nee-’s. The subject of the leetnre will be: "The Message of Garden Cities and Town Planning.'' Admission will lie free.