STATE HOUSES.
SYSTEM OF ALLOCATION. MINISTER. ANNOUNCES CHANGE. (Per Press Association). . AUCKLAND, March 13. The system for the allocation®of State houses to tenants has been changed. It was”stated by the Minister for. Housing (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) to-day, that so far as it is possible, houses will he,let according to the urgency of cases and the circumstances of the applicants. Mr Armstrong said that complaints had been made that persons who had been living in good circumstances had gained houses under the ballot system, whereas others who were living in hovels and often with large families were mliable to gain houses. Every endeavour would be made to allocate the houses as they were finished in order of urgency of cases. Some persons in Auckland and Wellington were living under appalling conditions and the Department had a body of inspectors who would visit the applicants’ present homes and report on conditions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 129, 14 March 1939, Page 3
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