TOWN PLANNING.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1919, Page 5

TOWN PLANNING.

PAPER BY MR. HURST SEAGER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, May 21. The Town-Planning Conference continued to-day. Mr. Hurst Seager read a paper on garden cities in relation to the problems of -nconstruction a" rl repatriation. He dealt at great length with English schemes, notably Letchworth, and urged that the decentralisation of industries by means of establishing self-contained garden cities was the only proper solution of the present housing problems. A general discussion several speakers urging that the large schemes of England were --t needed in New Zealand, where, however, there was great room for town improvement. Delegates expressed some dissatisfaction at the method of conducting the conference, sayinc that there were too many lengthy papers and selected speakers and not enough opportunity for general discussion. The remainder of the morning was given to general disCUSBiOTl.

Dr. Reakes, Director-General of Agriculture, said the differences between the price received by the producer for vegetables and the price .paid by the consumers was far too'large, and the garden village ought to help in solving this problem. Fruit farming settlements ought to benefit both the producer and the conriimor, and the same principles of concentration and co-operation could be applied to poultry, pig, and bee farming.