SIR JAMES ALLEN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16987, 9 November 1920, Page 8

SIR JAMES ALLEN.

« . I HOUSING QUESTION IN LONDON. (TBOlf OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDOX, September 23. I While Sir James Allen was at Bristol last week in connexion with tho open- ■ ing of the new Cold Stores, he took the ,! opportunity of calling upon the shipping companies and assuring them of the assistance of tho New Zealand Go{vernmeut in any efforts they made with • a view to bringing about a direct i steamer service between Bristol and the Dominion. Sir James spent a night at Bristol, his • host being an old schoolmate of Clifton College, Mr 11. E. Bush. Some ; of the members of the Expeditionary j Force will remember Mr Bush'e hou&e, ! for during the war he turned it into a ; hospital which provided for some 100 i patients—ho and his family living in a oottage nearby. It was here that a large numbor of wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers were accommodated. Last week a party, consisting of the High Commissioner, Colonel G. F. C. Campbell, Mr Donald liobertson, Mr E. A. Slirimpton, and Mr S. Hurst Seager, motored out to Acton, on the outskirts of West London, where the London County Council is carrying out a scheme of house building. Here they saw what is being dono towards the solution of the housing question by the London Council. They examined the various types of houses which have been completed, and which are being built along the lines of mass production, and they were conducted over that part of the new town which is devoted to experimental schemes. Here houses are being erected with different materials and differently shaped manufactured blocks, the intention being to compare the results which the heavy wefther of the coming winter has upon them. Here also they saw a house being built by compressing mud. The High Commissioner will, no doubt, convey any valuable hints received from the visit to the proper quarters in wie Dominion. Sir James and Mr Hurst Seager will probably be making other excursions to village settlements in process of formation.