HOUSES OR THEATRES?
RAILWAYMEN'S STRONG PROTEST. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") DL'XEDIX, this day. The Hillside branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants unanimously resolved, '•That we view with deep concern and emphatic disapproval the proposal of a wealth}' I syndicate to build a theatre In Dunedin i costing approximately £40,000 during j the present acute state of the housing I pr-jolem. We further consider that, I while our returned soldiers arc, owing to the scarcity, paying inflated prices for their homes, such syndicates should be u»od to relievo present distress b. v building homes for the- people, instead ot places of amusement/ .
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 250, 21 October 1919, Page 4
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103HOUSES OR THEATRES? Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 250, 21 October 1919, Page 4
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