PENSIONER FLATS
Council Plan Subsidised (From Our Own Reposter) WELLINGTON. April 18. The Government has approved a maximum subsidy of £19.200 for the Christchurch City Council’s Marshland road pensioners' housing scheme, the Minister of Health (Mr McKay) announced today. The scheme will provide 24 single-person pensioner flats, with a Government subsidy of £BOO for each. The council had at present a waiting list of 350 for these flats, the Minister said. All applicants on this list had been classified as “necessitous” on the ground that they were age beneficiaries and at present unsatisfactorily housed. The site was ideal, on flat land m a residential area, close to a shopping centre and other community interests. and on a bus route. The cost of the land was reasonable. The design of the flats differed from previous council units. It would allow better light and ventilation in the bed-alcove area, and would also attempt to lower costs. Rentals would be 30s a week. Because the council regarded this stage of the year as opportune for competitive tendering, the Government had given approval in the shortest possible time.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29802, 19 April 1962, Page 12
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