NEW DARWIN.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 400, 6 April 1937, Page 3

NEW DARWIN.

DREAM OF FUTURE. Rebuilding Suggested. Instead of repairin; the cyclone damage ait Darwin, the hedeial Government should embailt upon a complete rebuilding plan, Mr Blain, M.H.R., for the Northern Territory, declared in Melbourne recently. Mr Blain said that the action of the Minister of-the Interior, Mr Paterson, in sending Mr Haslam, one of his senior architects, to Darwin by air showed that the Government realised the importance of the Work. The adoption of a new town planning scheme for the mott northern centre was warranted, and he suggested to Mr Paterson, he said, that the services of a town planning expert should be secured and a special plan prepared. Because of its tropical situation it was essential that Darwin should be built on regional lines. Aerial Gateway. Noxious trades and aborigines’ quarters, for example, should be zoned away from residential lareas, because of the remoteness of Darwin, and the need 1 to forward supplies of material from the south. It would be difficult, he said, for basic wage earners there to provide suitable homes from their own resources. For that reason he thought the Government should launch a workers’ home scheme to finance the rebuilding of homes for Darwin residents. The Government, added Mr Blain, should realise that Darwin Was our aortal gateway, and it was essential that visitors. 1 arriving from overseas should get a good first impression of Australia.