HOUSES FOR PENSIONERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 6

HOUSES FOR PENSIONERS

As an elderly person, though not a nensioner. m*v 1 make a few remark- i ejaidinjr the Government's linn -i 11 sehenier I -s; that some eou*iderat ion lie piven to ilie !eMi-irr.f of the old pensioner*, who, t.i tnv mind, suffer the preatest har<l«hi| p of any v,.,-t;nii of the people owing to the rent of ihe meanest, and most dilapidated (otta*_ r e heinp Ih'\"ihl their means. A* mo»t of them. fioth Mien and Women, suffer cofue physical disability. • iiev must live near to the ritv. as i|iev c.inm»t afford tram fares. Miyht I * lh.it »• ■niiof the old and unsightly liniMiirj- he demolished ami a few decent huildii::.'- be put in their plaee in the shape of two I l! *s with liriek partition- between. «i;h tie in sarv conveniences and a small p'ot <■ I l-iiel' Buildings <'f tlii« description Id l»- Ih ,ii n rent possible to those e,-f1 in • the o!d aye pension. 1 know many of both -e\e- i . I.i v depriving themselves of the 11 ■•< • i —11 i< • - > ' Iil" ■ ■ to pay as much r.s !.">/ a week f"i rat luii-tcd hovels in fhi* Queen City o" tin- V.nth M■ • pill our humane <!n\eminent. v\ I■ i 1 • • the workers, will not forget the old i.eonle A TV VII.