BRITAIN'S HOUSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 9

BRITAIN'S HOUSING.

Substantial Progress In Slum

Clearance.

CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE.

LONDON, October 6.

The Conservative party at Brighton pledged itself to give full to the Government's slum clearance policy. The' Minister of Health, Sir E. Hilton Young, who a few months ago called on the local authorities to prepare schemes for the total elimination of slums within five years and make provision for alternative accommodation, reported that the first stage of the campaign had given good results. Most of the local authorities had taken up their task with energy and vision. (

Already the Minister had received a return covering three-fifths of the population. The estimated totals from these returns provide for the clearance in the five years of 210,000 houses, now housing about 1,050,000 people.

During the last 10 years only 20,000 slum houses had been cleared, and that effort now was being multiplied by 20. The cost would represent a total capital outlay in the five years of £95,000,000 or £19,000,000 a year. The Minister said the Government was determined to see the matter through. REFORM IN INDIA. WHAT THE TORIES THINK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, October 6. The Government's proposals for Indian constitutional reform were discussed at the Conservative conference at Birmingham this afternoon. A resolution was proposed which recorded confidence in the Government but represented to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Indian Reform that apprehension was .felt regarding tne proposals concerning the finance and defence policy, the Indian peoples, and trade discrimination.