DEAR RENTS.
SOtVISG TEE PROBLEM. S&W. COMMISSION. '{Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Parliamentary committee which inquired into the enormous increase in hocse rents assigns the causes to the increase in population and the growing cost cf laixrar and materiaJ, the growing deBand for cottages and houses resulting fora prosperity, the preference for terhce Senses, and, in isolated cases, the federal land tax. The nmmiitrpp recommends that the Government Sayings Banks be empowered to lend artisans 95 per centum of the cast of honsebniMing. to making available of snSaiJe Crown land about the Fubarhs, a vigorous policy of house conKrucikm ly the Government, and the granting of permission to people to live in canvas dwellings in Daceyville and Centennial Park daring the summer.
Theccsnnnttee also urges a bill to rt**rufete rents.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5
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DEAR RENTS.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5
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