HOUSING SCHEME

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 86, 8 October 1937, Page 10

HOUSING SCHEME

ALONG RIGHT LINES

OPPOSITION SUPPORT

Support for the housing scheme of the Government was given by the Hon. Sir Alfred Ransom (National, Pahiatua) in his speech in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon during the debate on the Budget.

Sir Alfred said he believed the proposals were along the right lines, but the difficulty was that the scheme created a tendency to increase the costs of house building. The same j thing had happened in the past when I the Government of the day took up [land for settlement, and land values rose immediately.

"I regret that there is to be no freehold under the scheme," he added. "I think it would be better for the Government to give some encouragement to the individual who rents a house

from the State that he would ultimately become the owner of the house."

HITCH AT STRATFORD COUNCIL RAISES OBJECTION (By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Tendering for the construction of State houses at Stratford has been stopped by the Minister in Charge of Housing because of the attitude pf the S -afford Borough Council in refusing in usual services to the houses on the ground that the site chosen is unsuitabThe Mayor (Mr. J. W. McMillan) said that he had no comment to make until the matter was placed before a full meeting of the council. The council's objection to providing the usual services is unknown, for it has not been discussed in open council. The Housing Department's decision was made almost at tne eleventh hour, for o . Wednesday it wrote that tenders for the erection of ten single-house units and two double-house units would close on November 2.