HOUSING IN SCOTLAND.
APPALLING CONDITIONS. LONDON, March 16. The Housing Commission was greatly impressed by Mr. Robertson's evidence on the appalling housing conditions, especially in Scotland, and the necessity for the State providing proper homes. Twenty-eight per cent of the people in Wishaw, he declared, lived in houses of one room. He added that 2768 people lived on the basis of more than five to one room, and 1237 more than six to one room. Numbers were compelled to share beds with .onsumptivcs.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 65, 17 March 1919, Page 5
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