OLD HOUSES
“Absolutely Unfit For Habitation” “It is absolutely impossible to find adjectives to describe the filthy state of some of these houses, which are a standing disgrace to the board,” said Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, referring, at the meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board last night, to the board’s houses in Little Pipitea and Murphy Streets. One in particular, he said, was quite unfit for liumaji habitation, and no rent had been paid for it for a considerable time. In the interests of the tenants themselves, the board should take immediate steps to have them ejected and to destroy the houses, Mr. Treadwell urged.
“We want the houses destroyed,” said Mr. A. H. Carman, chairman of the building, endowment and property committee, explaining that the board’s solicitors had been instructed to secure possession as soon as possible. The Minister of Housing had been asked to help in finding other houses for the tenants.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 10
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