STATE HOUSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 24

STATE HOUSES

MRS. GILMER'S DENIAL

A denial that she had ever described the State houses as being too good for working-class families was given by Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Liberal candidate for Wellington North, at her meeting in the Methodist Hall, Molesworth Street, last evening.

"I can hardly believe that the Minister of Education would so misrepresent another candidate as he is reported to have done in saying that I expressed such an opinion," said Mrs. Gilmer. "I never said any such thing in my life and I am very sorry that the Minister made the statement. He is not given to misrepresentation and I felt it was all part of the political game. lam ready to take any political knocks, but they, have to be fair and above board." Mrs. Gilmer said she did not think the State housing scheme tackled the problem as it should be tackled. The houses that were being built were very fine houses indeed, but the scheme was not. meeting the needs of those people who most required to be helped. If she were returned to Parliament she could have a big say in what she thought should be done in regard to housing. A voice: A one-woman party. Mrs. Gilmer said that a number of other countries had solved the housing problem and one of her first duties if elected would be: to put forward a scheme that would meet all needs.