THE HOUSING PROBLEM.
[BT TIXEGEiPH — OWN COHRESPOXDENT.] DUNEDIN, This Day. Referring to the housing problem last night, Mr. Arnold said it was one of the questions which would have to be taken in hand by public men. A prominaat business man had said that if he was a t health officer he would condemn and .destroy three hundred houses in the city of Dunedin. Those three hundred houses were houses which were let for four, five, and six shillings per week. Well, what about the people who would bo unhoused by their being destroyed ? Let them take the cheapest of the other available houses at a rental of nine shillings' and upwards ? Tb do so meant that many of the wives arid families would have 'to go without some of the necessaries of lite. It wab necessary, said Mr. Arnold, in the existing conditions, that those houses should be there, and that was why the problem was one that must ba taken in
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1907, Page 6
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