TOWN PUNIER TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1983, 13 February 1914, Page 10

TOWN PUNIER TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND.

■■■■■■ '' ■"»■— |- — IMVITATI&N BY BRITISH ASSOCIATION, . LANTERN LECTURES TO BE ARKANGED, ' ' t he' interesting announcement is made tins week (writes a London correspondent on January. 1), that thd" British Association for the suegestien of the Garden Cities and Town .Planning Association, has' 'invitod- Mr.-W. E. j)avidg<B to address tltem on .tewJi planning wh-il-st in Australia iu August' next:- Sir. Davidgo j will gjve. two '.lectures'iiti the Economic Section, one at' Melbourne,' the other at' Sydney. . He will alspyisit New-Zea-land. ' .■■■'■ lit the meantime' the. Garden Cities and-Town Planning Association is sending Mr.* Charles , o. 'Seade.,"wßaniiw of the Austfelasian town •■planning tottr, 1914,' to ' Australia ■ and "Xbjv Zealand early in the year' ini order, to make the necessary.arrjngementi''for a Series of lantern lectures in the.jrrkeipal centres. These lectures; will be undertaken jointly by Mr. Davidge and-'Mr; Reado," subsequent to 1 the meeting-of. the British Associitioir.. .The New Zealand loctures will take place in July next, Tho CQKjperatioii of the lop'al. 'authorities, kindred societies, and jjabiic nieri is t6 be invited, and- an effort; niado to form commifctfles in'tie various,centres, -.with, a. view, to taking' the. fullest advan-taiges of Mr. Davidgb's presence w.hilst"lie :is i|i tlie Pacific. As a'distinguished njero-Irer-.ofthe esecirtive of'tKe Garden Cities, and..Town, Planning: Asspdatioft, Mr. ;Davidgo..lias censented: to'" deliver the Subsequent lectures' without' fee: or 'charges' other.' tliaii.' the expenses '■■' entailed :-.by his stiy. ' ' Mr, Bavidge. liolds th.o' distinction, almost nmque in Enpland,' of-being at- the' Saswi time an architect, a chartered surveyor, and a qualilicd civil 'Anghieer. He holds all Wao diplornas in each profession that it', is possible to get; he is a Fellow of' ills Sij.h'eyor's' , ' lustitutiou, and , a member of tho Royal Institute of and'.of the I;\ptitu* tion of Civil Enqjuec.r'S , ;.. » ~. rje has been kirown for some years as oh-e'of the moat iiifluential' men in the campaign- for'the betternieiitofEncilish towns; - As , a iii-emhor;. -of .the Town 'Planning Copvtnittw of the Royal insititute of British'-Arclj.itei3-ts ; ' ; iie lias been instrumental in- consideratiaij of the sublet *tf'.the town . planning of Greater London. Be is a in-emlier of the.'Sci'eß'C'e.'Com'-niHtcc, and ;is also*on the ■Esariii.flt-ng-Bosri of the i'Boyel Institute, and lie-hold's tl)p gold medal of. the Siiryoj'ors'; Institution of Great.Britain for a valuable, contribution oil'the subject of -town' plaiimiiß. '.He'is a. member, of thfi ffatidnal Hous-i-iiji aiid Town Planning GouiiEtl. and a member of the Esiise'ntivo Council of -the Garden Cities and To.frii Planning Assooifttion, which has had so ; large -a share in the creating of : Mr. Elierift/ier Howard's Rarden. City at Letchw-olrth aiid the.HatnOftoad Gnrdeii Suburb. Ho, is oii tho, oouiic.il of the uewlycoiistitiited .Town, Plah-fiing" Institute.. ■ J;f'. : . Reads is. a New' Z-ralaiidftr, ■ who. lia-s taken an, active part in stirring u.p iutferpst iii town, olasiriihi»"in tba Bomitiipn. both hy public lectures arid . writing. He has.'-stij'diqd thp'.questton for some : .year's, boili■ in . England and diiroad,'.and has sevewl times heeli.called .'upon, to rnad; papers at eoiifer-ences in Londoii and Ghent. As the result, of n long "tq-iir of invosticatfen to O-ermatiy this year., he -has bwn. invited to give ,i, lunt'p'rn' lee.tiire" before, a pathorinp of Pf.itieli' town Tifctiiipfs at the Boyal In* stituto of. British A ivhitee-t-R, wlph Sjr._ B / !'yin6nfi" J tlfi'w,in, F.R.1.8.A., will prefc : Purine- thf past two years, Mr. Reads 'lias'.delivered.inany lectures in different parts of Gr-wt Britain, and totken_aii i>.otivf- part in tlie work of his association, in . organising conforences, inss', etc, in favour of town planJtr. Read(? intniids liniitrinp, fo fvew leiiland a-'cot»pl»te oshlbitieil ef frlans of Efistlisli. a-n'd' Continental, -ftit'ios'i (jar-, eeiu citfqs,'n.nd stthiirbs,' niodoru .methods of Koiisiiia, and 'lantern slidos. w*h a'View to pns-urini? a coMit.i'ftuAnce nf the pduwtional work offered, by. the visit- <i Mr. T&aividqe. aitd'hteself... .. • ■ ■•; ,~. - - .-.,•. .I? •