AUCKLAND SLUMS INSPECTED
MINISTER “APPALLED AND DISMAYED”
MRS ROSS TO PRESS FOR REMEDIES (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 21, A visit to Auckland’s slums on a fact-finding errand was made today by Mrs G. H. Ross, Minister of Social Welfare. Escorted by city and other officials, she peered into dank dwellings, picked her way through odorous alleys, and spoke to Maori and European housewives who live in a little world of listing verandas, rotting floorboards, and peeling paint. “I am appalled and dismayed,” she said. “I had read about these th' gs, but until tc lay I had no idea they were so bad.” Mrs Ross said she would see her colleagues in Wellington and would press the case which Dr. R. G. McElroy, chairman of the Auckland City Council’s housing committee, had so long advocated. Mrs Ross said she would seek to have the Minister in charge of the State Advances Corporation (Mr J. R. Marshall) give the council’s housing committee the financial assistance it required. ? 'r W. T- Anderton, Member bf Parliament for Auckland Central, said: “What is wanted is a betterment cla: e in the Housing Act, but if I move an amendment they’ll call me an old Socialist.”
Mrs Ross: If you move that amendment I’ll second it.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27046, 22 May 1953, Page 11
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