INSANITARY BUILDINGS.
vgir,—l notice,.that at the last meeting of tho Trades Council a member said "he had been unformed that thoro- were at loaßt 100 houses ia Wellington that had been condemned by the sanitary inspectors," and tho .following resolution .was carried"That this 'council? take Steps to: force tho City Council to carry i out its own by-laws and see that these .buildings condemned destroyed in ,ttesinterGsts.of.f ,thosp^lyEb \ had to live I; inj them." .1 Probably most of . these 100 condemned houses consist of small cottages occupied by •worker's,' or '.the; Trades Council would not iare interested itself in. them. : It is'very difficult to. understand how it can be in the interests'..of ithe occupiers .to have thoir .ihouses *ipifllcd., -'down's 'There are no. small houses tpi'bpVgot, or no'•'doubt the ocaipiers "cf the insanitary building would have moverl out Voluntarily. If it ; is 1 - tfhought, that, if 'small cottages are pulled'down, they will be\ replaced '■b.r other', small 'houses, ' it will be found' a■' mistake,.'" bcc'auso small housos\ are mot now' built,; fthq':.Tatos\ and>:tfcixes being ■based .entirely..ori'tho value of the land, has a ■tendency to prevent'snjall. houses being.built. —I am,<ctc.,: ■ •'•. . ' « " ' CAV.S. • Jlarch 12. / 1 :
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 461, 20 March 1909, Page 10
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