STATE HOUSES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23365, 22 September 1950, Page 4

STATE HOUSES

Sir, —I wish to thank you for getting the answers to the questions I asked in my letter published yesterday. Not very satisfying, were they? There must have been 13 houses, not nine, because nine men in No. 1 Transit Camp have been allocated a house. Some have already moved. Of the four civilians who got an allocation, there is not one from the Transit Camp. Why? Is it because some of them have only been there a year or more? If the civilian units at i the Transit Camp only cater for one ! child or two of the one sex, why, during the last four months have tenants been sent in with three children, both sexes? And why are those already there being left in? I’m told that exi servicemen’s units cater for up to three | children. Then why are the units no ] bigger or different in any way from I the civilian units that only cater for | one child? And. further, there are couples in the camp with one child in | units only meant for those unfortunate enough to have none. Regarding the ! answers to my questions, I" accept the ; answer to the first one, about T.B. I j know of an instance where a couple had a member of the family in hospital with : that complaint. They were assured by ; the Rehabilitation Department that 1 they would not be put in transit In the circumstances, but they were, and are still in there. Regarding a 100 per cent, disabled man. In the instance I have in mind I believe a doctor ruled against this man being sent through transit Concerning Question 4, I asked, would a man not in transit, with a boy and girl, get a three-bedroom State house above a man in transit with three chilI dren, both sexes? I am told: “It might occur for medical reasons which would have to bo kept confidential.” What rot! It has occurred without medical reasons, and well do the persons concerned know it. I can give two' cases but I will be fair and first give the State Advances Corporation the chance to deny it. Dissect and examine the questions and answers of my last letter, together with this one. Do it in any way possible and you will be left the hard, cold, incontrovertible fact that things are not as they should be They don’t add up right to HENRY