STATE HOUSE ALLOCATION

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28237, 27 March 1957, Page 19

STATE HOUSE ALLOCATION

Comment’ From Magistrate

(New Zealand Press Association) 'WANGANUI, March 26.

“State houses are going to the wrong people. There are people in State houses who own cars, are interested in racehorses and who go to hotels,” said Mr S. S. Preston, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court in Wanganui today when he was told that the mother of a boy before the Court had to go to work to help to provide money to buy a home after a possession order had been made against them in respect of a house they were renting.' Mr J. D. Tizard said the mother was forced to go to work. That was what was happening in New Zealand with the march of time. It was striking at the country’s social system as it had in America. The mother had been compelled to work after an order for possession was made against the family. The only way to get a home was to build a new one, arid that took at least £7OO. The father was able to borrow the money, but the family had to work to pay it back. The Magistrate said there were too many persons wanting too much too quickly. When they had finished saving and slogging, they found that their children had been through the Children’s Court and were in the hands of a Probation Officer.