Australia’s Capital.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1922, Page 3

Australia’s Capital.

PROGRESS AT CANBERRA

SYDNEY, Jan 4

It is expected that at the present rate of progress of the construction of the Federal capital at Canberra, the Australian Parliament will be installed there by 1925.

The present activity is due to the work of the Advisory Committee, a body of experts which is advising the Minstry as to the most efficient means by which the capital may be transferred to Canberra on' the basis of the plan prepared by Mr AY. B. Griffin, the anti tect, whose design fori the capital won in a world-wide competition.

The plan provides for three stages, the first of which will be completed within three years, by which time it will he possible for the Parliament and the nucleus of the central administration of the Commonwealth Government to be established in the territory. The first stage contemplates a population of 6000. Although the buildings which will first house the legislators is described as a temporary Parliament House, it will be more pretentious and comfortable than any other Parliament House in Australia. 1

The prospect of the transfer of the capital to Canberra has brought forth much opposition from tlio' Press of Melbourne, which has fori so long enjoyed the prestige and the advantage ofl being the centre pf Commonwealth administration.