GARDEN CITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 5

GARDEN CITIES.

BIG FTJTUBE DEVELOPMENTS. At the tenth, ineettap; of the Ifirst- ' Garden. City, Ltd. (Lotehworthj, at tho Maiboni Bosfcaur/iirt recently, Air. J. 15. Oba-mpisey made the intwestine; au« nouncemc'iit that tho death rates were believed to bo tlw lowest for any industrial town in England, and that tho infantile mortality rate Was 50,6 per thousiind as against 95 for Bttglijjid and Wales. Mr. Obampney congratulated tiro company upon entering, the funks of divi-dend-paying concerns {a dividend at the rate of 1 per cent, was declared). Bnrinii tho year tho company hfld had somo eerioiis difficulties to deal, with inffludii'3 fifes, but the prospect of ineroafi--ing the. moans of e'nrployiiYeiit-d-urin.n; the year sec-mcA to he good, though be wished he ctiwld losk fervi-ftrd as hopefully to (lie provision of stiiEciejit houses. If they could prove to tbo world that the. (ihiects lor .which tho. company stood could be inade self-slipp/orting' from a business point of viott.iSlien. tkoy teotiH eft-courage- otliert.to pteft not merely garden suburbs,' but 'what was more worth striving for-—gardoii towns, in which workers would not only ba better housed but the- work itself carried <mi under healthy and cheerful conditions.

X discussion took iilaco its to wlinthcr a licensii! sh.oM.ld bo applied frjv for the Tifitjliivortu Hn-H with or without a poll, but no decision was reached.