AXIS DEEDS DEPLORED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 64, 13 September 1943, Page 4

AXIS DEEDS DEPLORED

Rec. 9 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 12. j President Roosevelt sent .a message to the Zionist convention expressing j horror at the Axis cruelties to innO'1 cent peoples in occupied territories: "I wish to emphasise that all feasible measures are being adopted to lessen the suffering of the persecuted Jews in Europe," he said.

aware of the restrictions operating against the provision of houses by private enterprise. These restrictions, however, are not an answer. Wellington was notorious for its housing conditions long before rent and tenancy restrictions were thought of. My knowledge of the city goes back 40 years and conditions were bad then. They were not Only bad; they were well known here and throughout New Zealand. And when I. say private enterprise fell down on the job I mean collective as well as individual private enterprise. I ask again hoW many corporate bodies have ever taken systematic measures to see that employees brought to Wellington are properly housed, or, for that matter, given extra pay for living in the most, expensive city in New Zealand, Moreover, I am concerned With a situation, rather than the factors that produced it. In other countries, Britain one of them, the State and the municipality have, had to come to the rescue in housing. Private enterprise cannot do the job. Why not recognise this, and stop talking generalities about no State interference in industry?—l am, etc., LIBEKAL.