Durie Hill Garden Suburb Scheme, Wanganui.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 8, 1 April 1920, Page 765

Durie Hill Garden Suburb Scheme, Wanganui.

We regret that in the article published in our; November issue dealing with the Durie Hill Garden Suburb scheme at Wanganui, which covers an area of 65 acres— first Garden Suburb scheme in New Zealand— Hurst Seagar, E.R.1.8.A., is stated merely to have reported on ‘the scheme. The fact was, as was generally known at the time, that Mr. Seager was the author of and solely responsible for the scheme and the planning and the lay-out of the suburb, including the' roads, and that liis report as set out in our article, was the detailed description and explanation of , his '.scheme, and the-plan that accompanied the article. Mr. Seager name appeared in the margin of "the original ...plan as its author, but in the preparation of the, block that margin was cut off,' and the plan as supplied to us unfortunately did not bear his name. • Mr. Seager is doing excellent work in ' England in connection' with the Town Planning movement, and read a paper at the'lnternational' Garden Cities Conference on “The' Garden City-as an Industrial Unit,’’ a good part of which appears on another page in this issue. He has prepared and dispatched -to the -New Zealand- Government a fine collection of photographs and copies of the best War Memorials in England, and is now engaged in the preparation of a permanent collection of Town Planning. Exhibits for the Dominion. . ' v ' ' ?