SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
COTTAGES V. TENEMENTS. 
MODERN COTTAGES WELL BUILT AND PLACED IN GARDEN 
SUBURB SURROUNDINGS IN ACCORDANCE WITH TOWN 
PLANNING AND HOUSING PRACTICE. 
MODERN TENEMENTS FOR 
WORKERS. 
Common to Continental and many 
American and Canadian cities, 
deficient in light, air, and resi- 
dential amenity. 
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REGULATORY MEASURES OVERSEAS. 
These measures nowadays are being effected in Great Britain, 
European, and other countries under modern town planning practice. 
Their adoption in Australia is necessary in the interests of industry 
as well as the conservation of national welfare. Industrial efficiency is 
dependent even more upon the efficiency of the home than the factory 
itself, although both are indispensable. This truism has long been 
recognised and given practical effect in industrial garden villages by 
up-to-date manufacturers, such as the Levers, Cadburys, Rowntrees, 
as well as by Continental and American manufacturers. Tt is part 
of the foundation of Letchworth Garden City and the modern housing ~ 
movement generally. The British Government spent £6,000,000 in 
applying it to the many new munitions towns and factories planned 
and built during the war. The United States Government has spent 
£25,000,000 for similar purposes. Moreover, the incorporation of 
garden city principles and standards of housing under municipal town 
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