TOWN-PLANNING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 198, 16 May 1919, Page 8

TOWN-PLANNING

1 CONFERENCE NEST'' WEEK. Tho Town-Planning Conference which opens' in tho.Town Hull on Tuesday.next will be officially opened by His Excel-.loiic-y the Uovcrnor-GeuertU. After His Excellency has opened the conference, the Minister "(Sir James Allen) will welcome Dio delegates,to the conference on behalf of tho Government. His Worship tho Mayor of Wellington will then extend to the delegates a' welcome oil behalf of tho city, After these welcome ceremonies tho presidential address tb open the business session of the conference will be delivered by tho Minister of Internal Affairs (tho Hon. G. W. Kussell): At the business sessions of the conference the Mayor of Wellington will preside. The first business will be the setting up of the various committees' necessary for tho working of the. conference. The first paper to be read will be by Mr. G. P. Newton, officer in charge of local government in the Internal- Affairs Department, and the subject of the address will be "Existing Legislation and TownPlanning Legislation Proposed." There will be a discussion on this paper opened by §ele4ted speakers, and then tho question will be -open for general discussion. Another address to lie delivered ill the afternoon will be by Dr. Frengley mi public health aspects of town-plan-uing. In the evening in the large Town Hall a short address will bo delivered by tho .Minister of internal Affair 6, There will tio music from the organ and from an orchestra, anil there will bo a continuous exhibition of pictures dealing with townplanning matters, including ' kinema .(Urns' of European cities. In tho hall there will be on continuous exhibition pictures, plans, and other matter relating to'the subject of the conference.