HOMES FOR SOLDIERS' FAMILIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3093, 25 May 1917, Page 4

HOMES FOR SOLDIERS' FAMILIES

ACTION BY WANGANUI PATRIOTIC

ASSOCIATION.

(B.v Telegraph.—Special Correspondent), Wanganui, May 24. , The question of providing homes at reasoiiable rent for soldiers and their families is going to be a big problem in New Zealand, and the local Patriotic Association intends to take practical steps towards its solution. At a meeting of the association a committee was set up to have a trial home built on one of tho gift sections at a cost, on a 5 per cent, basis, not to exceed 12s. 6d. per week rental. It is agreed that if the experiment is successful many more homes will be built on similar lines. It was polntec out that this would be a financially safe investment for the association's fundi, and as a matter of principle the associi* tion would carry out its objects on tie most humane and liberal lines.

Mr. Gibbons mentioned that the association, was at present paying rents f<r fourteen families, from IBs. per lyetk' downwards, though Eomo of the soldien , wives were paying £1 per -week and the houses were poor even at that rental. ;