HOUSING SCHEME

Evening Post, Issue 73, 23 September 1936, Page 13

HOUSING SCHEME

REQUEST TO COUNCIL

CO-OPERATION SOUGHT

(Special to the "Evening Post.") MASTERTON, This Day. A suggestion that the council should co-operate with the Government in its housing scheme was contained in a letter received' at last night's meeting of the Masterton Borough Council from the Masterton branch of the Labour Party It was decided to advise the branch that while the council was not yet aware of the details of the Government's proposals, it was prepared to consider sympathetically any housing scheme that might be brought The' Mayor, Mi*. T. Jordan, said he did not know what the Government's housing scheme amounted to as he had not seen it yet. He was prepared, however, to say that the council would be willing to consider very sympathetically any housing scheme the Government might bring down. At the same time he did not like receiving letters from political parties. Councillor W. Kemp recalled that there was an area of land near the gas works that had been acquired years ago for the purpose of building houses. The land was not bringing in any rental, and he considered that it might be made available to the Government as a site on which to erect, houses. He did not, however, want the borough to erect the houses or become a landlord. Councillor_A. Hippon considered that the council"shoul& co-operate with, the Government, but should not undertake the erection of -any^hotises-Itsell!.