STATE HOUSES
BALLOT SYSTEM DROPPED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 13. The ballot system in the allocation of State houses to tenants has been changed, the Minister of Housing (the Hon...H. T. Armstrong) said today. So far as it is possible houses will be let according to the urgency of the cases and the circumstances of applicants. Mr. Armstrong said complaints had been made that persons who had been living in good circumstances had gained houses under the ballot system, whereas others who were practically living in hovels and often with large families were unable to gain houses. Every endeavour would be made to allocate houses as finished in order of the urgency of cases. Some persons in Auckland and Wellington were living under appalling conditions, and the Department had a body of inspectors who would visit the applicants' present homes and report on the conditions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 7
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