FIRST THINGS FIRST!
Everything seems to be topsyturvy. We have read in your daily recently such articles as "Populate or Perish," and the impossibility of this on account of the house shortage. Again, we read how home building is held up because of a shortage of fittings and materials, also labour. Now the bombshell. The City Council proposes to enlarge the Town Hall, the carrying out of which will entail the demolishing of part of the present structure. I would like to ask: why not concentrate all available man power, materials and brains to alleviating the present abominable living conditions of hundreds of families in urgent need of help, and then do the "demolishing and modernising" of the many hovels long since condemned by our City Council? R. EDEN.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 232, 30 September 1944, Page 4
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