The New Delhi The public has already had the opportunity
of judging, from photographs, the aesthetic value of the principal buildings of New Delhi. There can have been few unfavourable verdicts on the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. In last Monday's Times Lord Hardinge, who might be called god-father to the project, assures us that the new capital is financially as well as architecturally sound. To compare its cost with the estimates of 1912 is, of course, a mere waste of time ; the War was responsible for a wide discrepancy. New Delhi cost /10,247,500, or approximately £500,000 a year during its construction. There is no debt, for the expen- diture was covered, not by a loan, but by annual con- tributions from revenue. Over roughly the same period Australia has paid £13,000,000 for temporary buildings on temporary sites at Canberra.
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