HOUSING THE PEOPLE.
BRITAIN'S SLUMS MUST GO. LONDON, October 2. At the ceremony of liis receiving the freedom of Glasgow, Mr. Stanley Baldwin said that the task of improving housing £ conditions demanded the cooperation of the best men and women of all classes. Slums constituted the most fertile source of social discontent. "We must shortly," he said, "with big imagination, tackle the enormous problem and- eviscerate the great cities." The Prime Minister promised to increase the housing subsidy to encourage the building of new homes in Scotland, where they were urgently needed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1925, Page 7
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