WRETCHED HOUSING
"HOVELS" IN DUNEDIN.
MR. J. A. LEE'S CRITICISM. " BUT CITY IS LOVELIER." (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. The opinion that although Dunedin possessed some exceptionally fine residential areas it could in some quarters show probably a greater concentration of wretched housing than existed in all of the other New Zealand cities together, was expressed by Mr. «T. A. Lee. Under-Secretary in Charge, of the Ministry of Housing, in an interview. Mr. Lee said he could speak with a good deal of authority, for in two hovels, which, in part, represented his reason for making that statement, he himself had lived nearly 40 years ago. Dunedin could show a most intolerable degree of wretchedness as far as housing was concerned. Within a stone's throw of the Town Hall were places not suitable for young New Zealanders, and in portions of City Central and South Dunedin were conditions that approximated to the slum problems of some overseas cities. At the same time, Mr. Lee remarked that Dunedin grew lovelier year by year, and had an abundance of inexpensive housing areas for fresh buildings.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 8
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