MRS. KNOX GILMER AND STATE HOUSING
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —The tactics being used by sup-j porters of the Socialist Government in grossly misrepresenting Mrs. Knox Gilmer's views on the subject of State housing call for comment. Mrs. Knox ■Gilmer has never stated or suggested I that the State houses were too good for poor people. At every meeting she has addressed she has stated plainly that while the State houses are good houses they have not been made available to the poor people who at present are housed under bad conditions and should be the first people considered and not people who could afford to build their own homes. What the country needs is cheap houses for people with low income. There is nobody in the Dominion so deeply aad earnestly concerned with the welfare of the people of New Zealand or better informed on the subject of housing than Mrs. Knox Gilmer who has studied the problem intensively in various countries, notably Sweden, which is most progressive in this respect.—l am, etc., WELLINGTON NORTH. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 15
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