WORKERS’ HOMES
CHRISTCHURCH COUNCIL WANTS £20,000 LOAN
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, August 20. The City Council to-night decided to make an application to the Government for a special loan of £20,000 for providing workers’ hotrigs. In the course of discussion, Councillor Winsor said that, Hie council had some 20 or 30 applicants for houses on its books at the present time. It would take four years to satisfy these people at the rate of the present loan of £5OOO a year. The site conditions were bad at Northcote but the houses themselves were not bad as alleged. It would bo better for the council to ask the Government for sufficient money to satisfy the present 20- or 30 applicants. . Councillor Beaven said that th© council should do something for those people who at present were forced to live in insanitary dwellings. The Mayor said that there were 29 bouses now on the books, and .£23,000 would be required to satisfy that demand. .
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 287, 21 August 1923, Page 7
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162WORKERS’ HOMES Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 287, 21 August 1923, Page 7
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