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Birmingham will become the most perfect civic, contre in the British Empire if a scheme, which: is already nearly completed, is passed by the general purposes committee of the city council.

The schome involves an expon- diture of more than one million pounds on planning and construct

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which architects in every part of the world will be invited to aub- mit designs..

It will result in the centre of. Birmingham being moved a quar- ter of a mile to the "west.

Gardenis, will be laid out, and new buildings, such as а Мади aion House for the Lord Mayor, a concert hall to hold 10,000 people, a new public library, and a num- ber of other additional public buildings, will be constructed.

The architecte invited to submit designs for this reconstruction will be asked to suggest a general lay-out for the area as well as plans and designs for the most suitable type of buildings.

The scheme will be put forward by Sir David Brooks, chairman of the sub-committee concerned, and It is understood that the city coun- cil are sympathetic towards it. They consider that the scheme will meat a long-felt want:

Birmingham has long been with- out adequate civic buildings. This new scheme will group them round, the war memorial, and will turn the heart of Birmingham into at place of perfect buildings, new and old, and beautiful gardens.

The present Council House and other municipal buildings will be retained, but when the scheme is completed they will form part of square covering more than

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thirty acres, with new roads branching from it and new com- mercial areas opened up,

SATURDAT

DECEMBER 18, 1926.

WILL THEY COME TO THIS ?

THE TABLES ARE TURNING

SINCE WE HAVE

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A MARCEL, PLEASE.

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THE MEN WILL HAVE TO FALL BACK

OUR WAYS NMEANS " IF THEY WISH

TO PETAIN THEI

INONDIALITY

INGENIOUS THEFT.

ing a confederate in the corridor on the watch, and put whatever articles he could in the hamper.

Famous Architects,

"We have had to fill up canals to "We have acquired most of the make the site perfect, and we shall property concerned by stages dur- haye to pull down factories and ing the last ten to fifteen years. houses to further it, but, when EMPTY HAMPER IN LUGGAGE Then, on arriving at the station Now the scheme has reached its finished, it will have provided Bir- climax. If it is passed, and I feel mingham with a group of civic sure that it will be, it will mean buildings-ita new heart-which

that we shall issue invitations im-

no other city in the Empire can

VAN.

for which the hamper was labell-' ed, he would claim it in the usual way.

alleged by the prosecution to have An ingenious method of stealin

The rail companies, said the mediately to the most famous ar- surpasa."

been used by John Slayford, a prosecuting solicitor, felt they had chitects in the world to help us in It is probable that in order to 'our planning.

Sir David Brooks has been a Lambeth stoker, was described at stumbled on one of the causes of complete this any leases which full "Birmingham needs a new civic member of the city council sinca Woking recently when Slayfor! loss of goods and, luggage. due will be acquired by the coun-, centre equal to that of any city in 1901. He became Lord Mayor on was charged with being concerned, Slayford's landlady would give eil, and that the buildings con- the world, and Birmingham in- the resignation of Mr. Neville with a man not in custody, with evidence that he constantly went out with an empty hamper in the cerned will be pulled down or re-tends to have it.

Chamberlain in January 1917, and the theft of tobacco.

morning, returning at night with constructed.

"The necessary expenditure will was twice re-elected. He was The prosecution said Slayford's

a heavily laden one. "Our object is to make Birming- be arranged by the city council chairman of the committee which method was to put a large empty ham the largest and the most per-under Government authority, and dealt with the extension of the hamper in the luggage. van of a fect civic centre in the Empire,” will be repaid by means of an an- city boundary in 1911, and is the corridor train. During the jour said Sir David Brooks.

nual sinking fund."

originator of the present scheme. ney he would enter the van, hav.

It being intimated that three other eimilar charges would be. preferred, a remand was ordered.

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