The city which this generation of Australians will visit, writes the "Sydney Daily Telegraph" will a city of homely tiled roofs and red brick walls, a city of magnificent avenues of shade trees, and' nestling -cottages, of broad roads and gardens, surrounded by pine forests and hills, and fed by! generous waters. The committee of the Federal Capital League conceives Canberra during the first. stage as a garden town, with simple, pleasing, but unpretentious. buildings—mostly single-story-—planned nevertheless to afford adequate comfort and reasonable con—venience. This first stage, which it is hoped will be reached in about. three years, will mean the—establishing of Parliament at the, city attended by such administrative departments or branches) 2s have te be closely associated with their Ministers. These departments will probably include the Prime Minister's Treasury,—Attorney-General's Home and_ Territories, Trade and Customs, Health Works. and Railways, and the Postmaster-General's. It is proposed to advance the building of the capital in three stages. The first will probably be gone straight on with; fact, most of the preliminary work has already been done, and the "garden town with, simple, pleasing, but unpretentious buildings' will be the legislative home of many of those who now guide the destiny of the Commonwealth. The second and third stages will be gone on with some day when there is more money to spare. The second stage will include the removal off the central administration and other departments to the city, additional railway connexion, and the execution of some permanent architectural wand engineering works. The third and last stage will possibly be not for this generation to admire. It will extend over a long period and will leave the little garden town a stately city, with some towers and marble walls.
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