TOWN-PLANNING.
Much is being done in the .city of Glasgow in the nature of townplanning. ,Mr.s Helen Barton told an Auckland reporter that slums are being replaced by very fine workmen's dwellings at low rentals; open places have (been set aside as playgrounds for children, and washhouses- and (bathrooms have been equipped for the use of poorer people. The sanitation of the city was excellent, its streets were well lighted, and it drew a supply of water from Loch Katrine! which was claim-
Ed to bo the finest in the world. A direct result of the reforms which had 'been carried; out was that the death-rate in Glasgow had fallen from 40 to 14 per 1000. Mrs Barton said that the Glasgow Corporation was the most progressive in the world, and as an instance of its advanced ideas she mentioned that the profits from water, electricity, and tramways, which have all been municipalised, are reserved for the "common good" fund, and are expended only an directions that will directly benelit. the people, physically or intellectually.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10256, 7 June 1911, Page 4
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175TOWN-PLANNING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10256, 7 June 1911, Page 4
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