TOWN-PLANNING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 116, 10 February 1919, Page 7

TOWN-PLANNING

A CONFEREXCE'AIUUNGED. From liny ■l> to 10 delegates from all pnrls (if New Zealand will discuss town;plnnuiii|f at a conference in tho Town Hull, Wellington, promoted by the Gov- • crnmont. The honorary organiser, Mr. S. Unrst Seagor, .states the object? of tho project thus:— 1. To delegates from all tho cities nnd boroughs or Hie Dominion , representing: (a) Government Departments; (1)) miiiiieinnl and other local government- bodies'; (o)' professional societies or other associations or individuals interested in the welfare of Dominion cities and towns. 2. To discuss a series of illustrated 'papers on the principles of town-planning mid housing, and their application to Dominion conditions, compiled by delegates possessing expert'knowledge of some portion of town-plnnniii" work. 3. To consider' the legislation necessary to carry into effect the principles of town-planning and tho means of securing permanent organisations for lown-plan-•ning education niid advancement. •I. To collect and arrange for exhibition plans, models, photographs, diagrams, etc., relating to: (a) Town-plannfhg activities in Great Britain, United States. Canada, Ranee, Italy, Australia, and other countries, (b) The growth of Dominion cities, showing the existing conditions, their merits and defects, and contrnsting the conditions before and after improvements have been' effected. S. To inaugurate competitions for hoiisiiig for workers, industrial villages, jjnr. den suburbs, civic improvements, artistic' advertising, photographs nf civic beauty contrasted with civic ugliness, paintings of towns and cities, and to exhibit tlm drawings and models submitted. I!.' To bring before delegates and the public, by means of moving pictures and Innlcrn illustrations, the progress which has been niade. in the development' (if garden cities and gardi-n suburbs, _ the coiivpnienccs and bemitificalion of cilios, ami, .by contrast, the necessity for imnipdinte improvement- iii the Dominion I cities nnd towns. ; 7. To publish an 'illustrnlert; ofTmifil j synapsis of proceed ings recording the ! views of the writers nnd speakers and ! the resolutions passed..