NO TWO ALIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 10

NO TWO ALIKE.

HOUSING SCHEME. " GARDEN SUBURB." ALL TO SHARE BEST SITES. MAY SEL.ECT OWN DESICrN. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Government's housing scheme is rapidly taking shape and there have been important developments during the past few days, indicating that the scheme is going to be one of the most important ever undertaken by a Government in New Zealand. Mr. G. Wilson, of the firm of Gummer and Ford, architects, of Auckland, is to take up the position of architectural adviser to the Director of Housing Construction, and the Director of Town Planning, Mr. R. B. ' Hammond, will advise from the town planning aspect. In discussing the housing question generally to-day the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Finance, Mr.- J. A. Lee, said that there had been criticism in regarc'. to the Orakei area in Auckland. It had been stated that it was possible there would be fair-sized bungalows for the higher-paid skilled workers or that there might be cottages similar to those built by the Auckland City Council, or a standard type of railway cottage. Mr. Lee said there would be nothing like that, and it was more than possible that there would not be two houses alike in one street. The houses would not be only for higher-paid workers. The Prime Minister had determined that the working people should have their share of the choice sites, as well as their share of the valleys. " Areas would be designed on the best townplanning principle, and the Housing Department felt that the scheme it would • put into operation would make Orakei and the other areas, such as the Hutt Valley, garden suburbs in the true sense of the term. It is understood that while the houses will be constructed to a certain standard, those applying for the houses will be allowed to select their own designs.