HOUSING PROBLEM
I — m — EVIDENCE BEFORE A SELECT COMMITTEE POORER RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN MELBOURNE "A PERFECT DISGRACE." (By Telegrnph.-Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received October 23, 9.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Before the Select Committee appointed by the Victorian Parliament to enquire regarding tho housing problem, tho president of the Minimum Allotment and Anti-Slum Housing Crusade Committee declared that in some of the poorer areas the housing conditions were a porfoot disgrace to a young country. Other house. 1 * were such that nobody Bhould even be . aJlowed to keep a pig there. Rents, which five years ago were 8s a week, were now 16s 6d. A police constablo stated that in a certain quarter only two houses out of sixty-five had baths, and that ,of these one was dilapidated, and the other never used. The houses in this quarter were almost exclusively inhabited by Indians, Chinese, and Assyrians, who worked hard as ice-cream vendors, street musicians, and hawkers.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 99, 23 October 1913, Page 7
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