IT SEEMS MORE THAN PROBABLE THAT THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A MODEL SUBURB IN NEW ZEALAND WILL COME AUCKLAND, WHERE EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO SECURE FOR THE CITY THE UNIQUE SITE AT ORAKEI, AT PRESENT NATIVE LAND, WHERE THE EXPERIMENT MAY BE MADE. The panorama No. 5, with its sweep of Orakei Bay, and the splendid stretch of uplands surrounding it shows what a perfect situation the future Garden City possesses. Phoc Nos. 1, 3, 7, and 9 are a few examples of the sort of thing which could be improved when building for the years to come. Photographs Nos. 2, 4, 6, and 8 indicate what the best present-day opinion in the Old Country demands in the planning of a new town. The rents of the comfortable homes in picture 4 run from 7/9 to 10/4, while those in the No. 6 photograph range from 11/ for the first house to 8/6 and 7/9 for the others.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 4, 24 January 1912, Page 24

IT SEEMS MORE THAN PROBABLE THAT THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A MODEL SUBURB IN NEW ZEALAND WILL COME AUCKLAND, WHERE EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO SECURE FOR THE CITY THE UNIQUE SITE AT ORAKEI, AT PRESENT NATIVE LAND, WHERE THE EXPERIMENT MAY BE MADE. The panorama No. 5, with its sweep of Orakei Bay, and the splendid stretch of uplands surrounding it shows what a perfect situation the future Garden City possesses. Phoc Nos. 1, 3, 7, and 9 are a few examples of the sort of thing which could be improved when building for the years to come. Photographs Nos. 2, 4, 6, and 8 indicate what the best present-day opinion in the Old Country demands in the planning of a new town. The rents of the comfortable homes in picture 4 run from 7/9 to 10/4, while those in the No. 6 photograph range from 11/ for the first house to 8/6 and 7/9 for the others.