WHAT A CITY MIGHT BE-HE capital in 1950 A.D.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 1, 6 July 1910, Page 24

WHAT A CITY MIGHT BE- HE capital in 1950 A.D.

A VISION OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT AS H

f ■ght be planned to-day for the future city.

Ihe (•ovcrnnimit mid the Wellington City Council have lately agreed to widen certain streets, and close part of Sydney-street. preparatory to the erection of the Houses of Parliament (seel 4 ®- 1 roof of the buildings seen In the foreground represents what will probably be the Government Buildings erected on the site of the present structure. By abolishing the existing fences of Parliament, on t lie left is the Municipal Opera House (subsidised by the State), on the right the National Art Gallery, whilst in the distance, to the left of the Houses of Parliament, is tbe^w 11 tivated, and, in short the centre of the capital made representative in J ® v '

"The Weekly Graphic” artist, in keeping with the proposed alterations, depicts what the , - ! li.H:il eitv might be l'> ','.'f|su'o',l i" y\'u.d Iwul ri'se'"he future ileuses the'ear iines "beef. by the sulftei-ratteat. system, now in operation in London, tree lined avenues have been entand environment of the high de.stii?.y which in time it should occupy.