TOWN PLANNING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 9

TOWN PLANNING.

NEW DIRECTOR ARRIVES.

WORLD-WIDE EXPERIENCE

FROM CANADA TO THE BALKANS.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON. Tlmrrfav.

Mr. .T. W. Mawson, the newlyappointed director of town-planning, arrived from England vesterdav.

Mr. Mawson has had a very varied experience. After serving with the Canadian forces in the war he accepted an appointment as housing and town planning adviser to the Greek Government. After the armistice with Bulgaria he was sent into Macedonia to report on the reconstruction of the destroyed towns and villages. Over 100 new towne and villages were designed by his department, as well as over 50 types of houses suitable for mass production. In 1921 he became a partner in the firm of Thomas 11. Mawson and. Sons, landscape architects, and went to Canada to take charge of the Canadian practice. He was responsible, among other thinps, for the design of the coal harbour at Stanley Park, Vancouver, and for replanning schemes for the cities of Begin.i, Ctlgary and Banff. He was in charge of the layout of a number of public park? and tue coast protection works and lighthouse a'. Brocton Point, Vancouver Harbc.tir. Jn 1922 Mr. Mawson accepted an invitation to join Viscount Levcrhulnp'* personal staff, to fake over tlie managing directorship of- one of his companies known as Moor Park, Limited, which had to deal with the lay out and development of an estate of 3UO<» a'-res on the outskirts of London. In l-.ngland he nas also been associated with development and town planning schemes in Hastings >ortnampton and Blackpool, and with sa u torv town planning schemes in a number of suburbs of London andotherlar towns. He is a past P/esident o tl< Town Planning Institute, a £1 p OV al the Linnean Society, fellow of the Royal . Institute of British Architect, and a l member of the Institute oi Structural Engineers. • Air. Mawson wa* in New Zealand for two years in 1908-10. He worked on , Masterton and Tauranga for thectth reasons. .