THE HOUSING PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17227, 18 August 1921, Page 6

THE HOUSING PROBLEM.

USE OF TE ORANGA NOT ENTERTAINED.

The Mayor is at present in ** i munication with the Minister of fife cation (tho Hon 0. J. Parr) retail '" to the use of To Oranga Hon* bttJM, : mgs which are at present unoccopiai for housing purposes to relieTo the ml ent acute position.

The Minister, in a telegram to tat Mayor, asking for further partietfcr, as to tho accommodation rwraffri. stated that ho would be glad to a* what could be done in the matter The Mayor replied that the No t buildings were well suited for the am. pose and would accommodate * people. If the use of the premises wm panted, a responsible committee «mm be placed in charge - The Hon. O. J. Parr, Minister af Education, replied last night to til Mayor's telegram as follows:— "1 hS consulted with the departmental eft cers respecting Te Oranga. In Tievtf certain arrangements which ore psvA, ing in regard to the future use nftt§ Homo, the Director of Educati<j» | opposed to part with possession just it present. Under these circumstaaii whilst most anxious to assist Ji3 Council, I fear nothing can be dm* si TeOranca." "

Mrs H. F. Herbert visited the baa* yesterday, and on return reported t» the Mayor that the No. 2 btiHdmf} would -bo most suitable for houmf purposes. They contained a kitefaea and a large dining room, also a mm*, ber of other rooms, many of tfcett large. There was also a cottage, wakfc would shortly become vacant, end other smaller buildings which could be ees* verted into habitations. Other adrift. tages included an enclosed ploygrama 1 and a swimming bath. On Monday afternoon a double eviction took place in Kingsley street* Sydenham. In each case tho baißJh were put in and the tenants were pot out. In one house a man end hie wife and a family of 11 children lived. They had nowhere to go to, and in the ineaa» time they were given quarters ia tfce Hospital Board's depot in Araaga street. The other* family wee smaller, and the neighbours 1 took them in. Tfc» double eviction aroused consideraWl interest in the locality, and the MeM& Mrs Herbert, and the Rev. J. at. Archer wore in attendance to do watt they could for the distressed people.; --" Huxley street Houses. ■■]. The Town Clerk, in a memoranda* to the Mayor, quotes tho statement made by the Rev. J. J. North that a widow in Sydenham wbb pnying 80s • week for a four-roomed shack columns! with the borer, and odds: "It appears to me that if this widow could My a landlord 30s a week for a place VS» that, she could pay the City Cornell 80s a week for interest and instafcfsnt of principal on one, of the mnniehtl houses in Huxley street, where ay would have every modern convemeayßv Yet these houses aro not being rushed." Cr. E. It. McCombs has girea notfcw to move at the special meeting of sat City Council to be held on Tuesday!--"That the officers of the Council N asked to prepare a classified list cf empty houses in the city, and that a* advertisement be inserted in tho ttWfr papers inviting citizens to co-op*?** by notifying the Council of the «wj> ence of such houses, and their ownership."