RAILWAY HOUSING
WAYSIDE STATIONS STANDARD CRITICISED STATE RESPONSIBILITY (P.R.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. Discussing the provisions in the Housing Improvement Bill, which was under consideration in the House of Representatives last night, Mr. E. B. Corbett (Opp., Egmont) asked if the State intended to contract itself out of the requirements regarding a minimum standard of dwellings which the bill prescribed.
He had, he said, been to wayside railway stations and seen the houses in which railway employees had to live. If these places were in a city they would be strongly criticised. Railwaymen, particularly those in remote districts, were entitled to a standard of dwelling equal to that in the towns, and the Government should take the responsibility in that respect ns it had criticised local bodies and private enterprise for owning sub-standard dwellings.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21823, 20 September 1945, Page 3
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