NEW TOWN-PLANNER FOR WELLINGTON
MR. K. BUTCHER APPOINTED Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Wellington City Council has decided to appoint Mr. H. Butcher town-planner for Wellington. Thirty-seven applications for the post were received. The new town-planner, who is ill
years of age, won the Lever Prize for town-planning in 1920, and the prize for civic architecture the following yea.r. He was engaged afterwards by tlio Home Government with which he was concerned with housing schemes in London.
He left that service to continue his architectural studies under Sir Herbert Baker and later had experience in America, where he was concerned with the preparation of plans for the development of Greater New York. Ho was a fellow student in London with Mr. R. B. Hammond, director of town-planning in Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 8
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