ENGLISH TOWN-PLANNER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26634, 3 December 1947, Page 4

ENGLISH TOWN-PLANNER

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND P.A. WELLINGTON, Dec. 2. The well-known English architect and' town-planner, Mr Clough Wil-liams-EUis, and his wife, who is the author of a numbeV of novels, arrived at Wellington to-day by the Wahine on a two months’ visit to New Zealand, during which time they will see their daughter, Dr Charlotte Wallace, who is on the staff of the Government research station near Hamilton. Mr Williams-Ellis was chairman of “ The First New Town,” a city which was planned at Stevenage and sponsored and financed by the Government. Under his direction the town was built up into a balanced community of 60,000 people, with the business, industrial, recreational and housing sites carefully proportioned. So successful was this undertaking that the British Government has developed three more such towns. Mrs Williams-Ellis, who is a sister of Mr John Strachey, Minister of Food in Britain, is the author of about a dozen novels. She is a former editor of the Spectator. Her husband has written several books, mainly on I architecture, and a war history. J