WORKMEN'S HOMES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 200, 22 August 1905, Page 3

WORKMEN'S HOMES.

The following are the final clauses of the Workmen's Homes Bill, the main portion of which was published in our last issue:—

Nα disposition of the lease or freehold of any worker's dwelling shall be valid except with the consent of the Land Board. The Land Board", in giving or withholding such shall be guided by the purpose and. intention of this Act to provide and protect homes for workers and their families. For the purposes of this section tion" includes sale, assignment, lease, sub-leasp. mortgage, or willThe local authority within whose jurisdiction any workers' dwellings arc situated may at any time by special order declare its willingness to undertake the management and control of such workers' dwellings, and thereupon the Minister may. if he tffinks fit. by notice in the "Gazette." vest such management and control: in the local authority subject to the provisions of this Act. The Minister may at any time thereafter (if satisfied that the local authority is not properly managing »uch workers' dwellings) revoke such notice, and on the gazetting of such revocation the management and control of the workers' dwellings shall revert to the Land. Board. On the gazetting of any notice under the last preceding section vesting the management and control of any workers' dwellings in a local authority, the capital value of such dwellings fixed as aforesaid, or so much thereof as then remains unpaid by the lessees, shall be deemed to have been advanced co the leeal authority- by ta« Colonial

Treasurer under the Local Bodies Loans Act, 1901. and the provisions cf tha* Act shall, matath mutandis, extend and apply accordingly. - All moneys received under this Act shall be paid into the public account, and shall in the ease of ordinary Crown lands form part of the Consolidated Fund. and. in the case of lands acquired under the Land for Settlements Consolidation Act. 1900. be credited to the land for settlements awount. The Governor may from time to time. by Order in Council gazetted, make such regulations not inconsi-tent with this Act as may he npcrssary to the effectual c-arryins otit nf this Act. The Minister shall, within twenty days after the commencement of pach session, lay before Parliament a statement for the preceding financial year, showiog (a) the moneys expended daring the preceding financial year in acquiring land under this Act and in preparing the same for workers' dwellings, and in erecting such dwellings, and (b) the number of dwellings erected, the total number of dwellings leased, and the number of dwellings leased under :, taction 9 hereof. Section 50 of the Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900. is hereby repealed.