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Committee No. 7 (Town-planning as it affects the School, the College, and the University). 1. The committee wishes to lay it down as a general principle that schools and surroundings should be such as to form a centre of local interest and pride, a stimulus as to the aesthetic development, and an inspiration to the community. 2. That in anticipation of future development larger areas should be set aside for school-sites and playing-fields in all sparsely settled parts of the Dominion. 3. That all existing school-sites, including University and secondary schools, should be so enlarged as to have adequate playing-areas and garden-spaces. I. That this committee recommends to the Conference, to suggest to the Minister of Education that steps should be taken to exhibit to the school-childreit of the Dominion lantern-slides descriptive of town-planning schemes. 5. That in all reserves hereinafter set aside in urban areas under the provisions of town-planning legislation special sites for the use of children under school age shall be allocated (creches, kindergartens, &c). 6. That any scheme for laying out playgrounds and building schools hereafter on sites set aside under town-planning legislation shall be directed with special reference to sanitation, scientific lighting, heating, and ventilation, hygiene, limitation of size of class-rooms, and proper attention to the amenities, decencies, and conveniences of life. 7. That the school playgrounds should, under proper supervision, be available for the use of the children of that neighbourhood at all times. 8. That school grounds and gardens should be so planned as to educate the children for community life and citizenship. 9. That greater attention be paid to the study of school architecture. 10. That the attention of the authorities controlling our various educational buildings and churches be immediately called to the advisability of removing all ugly fences now surrounding their buildings. 11. That this Conference recommends to the University Senate that town-planning be added to the curriculum. M. J. Reardon, Chairman. Committee No. 8 (Town-planning as it affects the Woman, the Child, and the Home). 1. Your committee congratulates the Minister of Internal Affairs for his vision and. public spirit in having arranged this Town-planning Conference, which should prove of inestimable educational value to the people of this Dominion. 2. Your committee is thoroughly in accord with the aim of the town-planning movement, and hopes that practical town-planning legislation will be placed on the statute-book during the coming session of Parliament. 3. Your committee urges the Minister to provide for adequate representation of women on all bodies specially set up to deal with town-planning. 1. Your committee is of the opinion that, as at the present time this Conference is dealing with the broad question of town-planning, it would be premature and ill-advised to enter into details of.townplanning in respect to the needs of women and children. We respectfully submit to the Minister that this committee be not disbanded, and that, when required, if consider specific matters under the above reference. We submit further that the Government be requested to arrange for a conference of women, with this commitee as a nucleus, to consider these matters in detail. (Mrs.) P. C. Corliss. Committee No. 9 (Town-planning-as it affects the Arts, the Sciences, the Crafts). The committee appointed to consider the above aspects of town-planning have to report that, in view of the scope of the other committees appointed and that their investigations naturally covered so large a field, it was felt that this committee was not justified in doing more than making a few general recommendations, as follows : — 1. That in carrying out all town-planning or housing-work there must be due regard to beauty of design. 2. That local bodies, who now have the necessary power, should, more closely supervise all external advertisements to prevent the erection of such as are. unsightly. 3. That it be a recommendation to the Education Department to institute a series of elementary illustrated articles in school journals upon the subject of town-planning, stress being laid on the fact that beauty and simplicity do not add to expense. 4. That whatever is available of the very fine exhibition of town-planning now in view in Wellington should be shown in the various towns of the Dominion when applied for, and that the Government bear the cost of such exhilrtion. 5. That e'ectric power be made available for household and manufacturing purposes in all parts of the Dominion as soon as possible by the utilization of the natural sources of power. 6. That war memorials should conform to the principles laid, down by Mr. Montgomery, as follows :— (a.) It is the duty of the people of New Zealand to erect fitting memorials for our soldiers who have fought and suffered in the Great War.