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One-Hundredth Year | |
No. 19,409 MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1939 Price 1½d 24 PAGES | |
INDUSTRIAL GARDEN CITY | |
Big Firm’s MoveTo Beaumaris | |
£1,500,000 COST | |
A model town for 10,000 people, containing 1200 houses, shops, hospital, theatre and school, is to be established at Beaumaris under the biggest housing and industrial project yet planned in Australia. | |
The scheme – to cost £1,500,000 – has been prepared by the Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Co. Ltd., which will leave its present works at Montague, Port Melbourne, for the new seaside site. | |
Months of Negotiation | |
New factory, new plant, and the transfer of what will be retained from the old works, will cost roughly £500,000. The Latest Today the Dunlop company issued a statement to its Location The scheme requires 450 to 500 acres of land. It is Acquisition of so many separate holdings on behalf of Previous big land transactions have been in the reverse | A small tongue of the land touches Beach Road, about 500 yards north of Rickett’s Point. The area consists almost entirely of vacant land with tea-tree |
“Work And Play” Ideal | |
The Victorian Railways extended the Black Rock tram about three miles through this area and beyond some years ago. The line was abandoned in the depression, and recently an Act was passed empowering the Railways to uproot the rails. This was actually begun this week. Sea transportation is likely to be embraced in the | Probably goods will be carried by lighters from a jetty near Black Rock. |
![]() | The site lends itself to landscape planning and the contour of the country will be carefully considered in the design. The scheme will provide for a type of house suitable to the locality and for the planting of trees. Recreation facilities and sports grounds will be a In addition to the beaches, which will be a natural The Essential services, which will be carried to the area |
HOSPITAL, SCHOOLS, AND CRECHE IN MODEL CITY | |
Buses will run to Sandringham and Cheltenham railway stations. In the shopping centre, provision will be made for Provision will be made for churches, doctors, dentists, A technical school is contemplated. Not only will this A creche will be established to take care of children Among One ideal, which the sponsors of the scheme would like Another project, which the engineers are likely to go It will probably be a city without fences. Most of the residential streets will be cul-de-saces | Provided agreement is received from the remaining land-holders yet to make their land available, a start will be made with the ground formation of the town within about two months. Building would begin about six months later. The Dunlop factory first began at Montague nearly 40 Executives of the company believe that the town will |
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