NEW ZEALAND’S HOMELESS
Sir,—l read with disgust in your columns that a new rubber company and a new petroleum company had taken over a private hotel and a former house respectively. It would appear that the “workers* government” finds pleasure in allowing big companies to take over such houses and flats and so deprive the poor old working man of a home in which to live. If this is an example of the Government’s so-called “homes first policy,” and let the non-essential work follow, it seems to be just another of its rash promises. I say put a homeless serviceman and his family into these converted houses, etc., and let the big companies wait their turn for building materials, as they are supposed to be doing. Furthermore, if the working man of this country were fixed up regarding housing shortages it would not be necessary for his children to visit “health camps.”—Yours, etc., COTTAGE TAI TAPU. Tai Tapu, October 1, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 5
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161NEW ZEALAND’S HOMELESS Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 5
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