AUCKLAND CITY HOUSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 68, 20 March 1936, Page 16

AUCKLAND CITY HOUSING

Nq, finality has yet been reached by the Auckland City Council on the proposal put forward some months ago to inaugurate a scheme for the erection of workers' homes, involving an expenditure of approximately £200,000 (states the "New Zealand Herald"). The scheme contemplated the erection of two buildings in Grey's Avenue, providing 125 modern flats and 125 semidetached houses in another locality. The site chosen or to be selected for these houses has not yet been announced. Application for permission to raise the sum of £200,000, which the housing scheme is estimated to cost, without the formality of taking a poll of the ratepayers, was submitted to the Local Government Loans! Board towards the end of last year.

Generally the Loans Board has such proposals subjected to a close investiI gation by its advisory officers and I after being satisfied that the proposal is on sound lines issues authority to raise the money. In the case of the City Council's housing scheme it is understood that the Loans Board is prepared to authorise the raising of the bulk of the proposed loan but has intimated that it has certain reservations concerning the suitability of the site selected in Grey's Avenue. The communication received from the board is still under consideration by the council, but- has not passed beyond the committee "stage, so that no definite pronouncement can yet be made. It is learned, however, that the council is having the proposals analysed in the light of the suggestions made by the Loans Board and before a final decision can be made the whole matter will be the subject oC a conference between the board and representatives of the council.