TRAFFICKING IN STATE HOUSES IS ALLEGATION
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 14. With 8000 State houses to supervise in Auckland and only about 10 inspectors, whose time is mainly taken up with dealing with applications for repairs, the State Advances Corporation is stated to have no systematic check on changes in tenancy.
Trafficking in State house tenancies without the authority of the department is said to be extending in Auckland, thus retarding the work of the Allocation Committee, which was established to ensure that the houses go to the most needy applicants. When this report was referred to the Minister in charge of State Housing (Mr F. Hackett) today, he expressed the opinion that the abuse of State house tenancies was not extensive. He did not believe that more than a dozen tenants in Auckland would be found to be occupying homes under false pretences. If inspectors were not to accept the word of the residents that they were bona fide tenants some “Gestapo” system would be necessary, which he felt would be generally repugnant. “I think the vast majority of State house tenants are playing the game,” the Minister added.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1948, Page 3
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