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man of the 15 committee men who is not at the head of some oreat 
business, and who is not loaded with the heaviest kind of responsi- 
bilities of his own, and yet they all make it a point of honour to be 
in their seats when the chairman calls to order, and not for a week 
or two, or a month or two, but most faithfully through years, and 
it is everywhere the same. 
The town planning mer. in every city are the ablest in the com- 
munity, and each one feels that lie has no duty more serious or 
more important ; and it may he of interest to Englishmen to know 
that, just as I was leaving Home a month ago (this was in 1910), 
Sir William Horn, Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Pacific 
Railroad, wrote to me from Montreal to say that he had taken the 
chairmanship ol a Plan Commission and desired to consult me about 
an organisation for the development of that city. There you have 
one of the three or four first men in Canada, deliberately arrang- 
ing to give his heart and hand to the kind of work we are talking 
about. 
There are many more instances, well worth mention, all going 
to show that town planning is not in the hands of people who have 
time to waste, but you do not need any more proof. You know well 
that the deep interest taken in the subject throughout the world 
marks, not a passing fancy, but a definite step in the development 
of man. 
Australia 
And now what is Australia doing? Neither in peace or war 
do we lag behind others, but rather do we strive to be in the lead. 
In 1917 a Town Planning Conference was held in Adelaide at 
which there were 291 delegates from all parts of the Commonwealth 
except W.A. ( Owing to the great strike and lack of transport we 
were unable to send delegates.) In 191S another conference was 
held in Brisbane at which there were 512 delegates, hut only four were 
from this State. There were present Cabinet Ministers, Members 
of Parliament, Heads of Government Departments of all the States 
except Western Australia, Lord Mayors, Mayors and Aldermen, 
Representatives of Statutory Bodies, such as Harbour Trusts, Uni- 
versities, Metropolitan Board of Wafer Supply and Sewerage, Town 
Planning Associations, numerous Local Government Bodies, such as 
Cities, Towns and Shires Councils. Other bodies such as Insti- 
tutions of Civil Engineers, Surveyors, Architects, Board of Con- 
trol of the Soldiers’ Garden Village, New South Wales, Master 
Builder^, Health Society, Women’s Horticultural and Home In- 
dustries Society, National Council of Women, Municipal Engineers, 
Chambers of Commerce and Manufactures, Editors of Daily Papers, 
Automobile Club, Labour Council, Women's Club, Federal Institute 
of Accountants, Historical Society, Horticultural Society, Pharma- 
