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ceutical Society, Employers 7 Federation, Returned Sailors and Sol- 
diers 7 Imperial League of Australia, Royal Geographical Society of 
Queensland, School for Mothers, Botanic Gardens Board, Wattle 
Day League, the Society of Architects, London, and the following 
Associations: — British Medical, Art Gallery, Journalists, Australian 
Natives, Trained Nurses, Traders, Timber Merchants, Children's 
Playground, Master Carriers, National Agricultural and Industrial, 
Law, Nurserymens and Workers 7 Educational* 
This list gives us some idea of the way in which Town Plan- 
ning is engaging the attention of the public, in the other States of 
Australia. 
There are now two Town Planning Ministers, one in New South 
Wales, Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald: and the other in South Australia, 
Hon. H. W. Bar well. They each intend to place before Parliament 
a Town Planning Bill, and it will be interesting to see which State 
will have the honour of passing the first Town Planning Act in Aus- 
tralia. 
Let me tell you of some of the things that have been done in 
Western Australia which could not have happened had there been 
a Town Planning Act in force, administered by experts: — 
Slums . — We have slums in Perth and Fremantle. In East Perth 
there are 11 houses on one allotment of half an acre, some fronting 
a narrow lane only 20 feet in width. 
In West Perth land is subdivided and built upon with an area 
of 10 perches. This equals 16 houses to the acre. 
In Leederville there are lots with about 16 to 20 feet frontage 
and small depth. They are built upon, one room in width and no 
land at the side. 
North of Victoria Park Station there are lots so small that 20 
are required to make one acre. 
In the whole of the Metropolitan Area from Midland Junction 
to Fremantle, it was a common thing for the owner of land to have 
it subdivided as he pleased, without supervision and without refer- 
ence to what the next owner had done or intended to do; the con- 
sequence is that many roads end in a cul-de-sac, and do not connect 
with one another. These mistakes can never be wholly rectified, and 
will cost a very large sum of money to undo some of the mischief. 
We have wedge-shaped corners of streets, making them unsightly 
and dangerous to traffic. In districts subdivided by private oAvners 
sufficient open spaces have not been reserved for parks, recreation 
grounds and children’s playgrounds. Claremont has only 1.2 per 
cent., Perth Road Board, including Mt. Lawley, less than 1 per 
cent,, Bayswater a trifle over 1 per cent., Belmont Park Road Board 
Vs of 1 per cent. Town Planners advocate about 10 per cent. To give 
an idea as to what it has cost Perth up to the present, although it 
