RENTS OF STATE HOUSES
Mr. Coates Considers Level Too High Dominion Special Service. Auckland, April 5. “It is misleading .the people of this country to suggest that’the wage-earn-er can pay the rents of from. 25/- to 32/6 which are being asked by the Government from tenants of State houses, declared the Rt. Hop. J. G. Coates in an address at Mangere. Taking an average over 20 years, Mr. Coates said, he doubted whether the working man could afford to contribute’ more, than 12/6 a week. Mr. Coates said he would much prefer each house to be subsidised to the extent 0f,£200 or £3OO so long as the man on wages had an opportunity of paying the rent and eventually making the house his own. Certainly, should there be a fall in prices, the rents at present charged by the State would have to be reduced. In the United Kingdom he found that 8/- a week was all that was expected from the wageearner when an average was taken over 10 or 20 years, and similar results had been obtained from investigations in several other countries.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 163, 6 April 1938, Page 16
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