STATE HOUSES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23367, 25 September 1950, Page 4

STATE HOUSES

Sir—l do not know whether the information published on Saturday in the name of the Rehabilitation Department is intended as an answer to my letter of Friday. If so, then it is unacceptable as such. If it was a coincidence then their information is such that it is disconcerting to all. The preamble concerning numbers is incidental to the purpose of my letters. The fact that a contractor completes a house means little. It is the time from then until allocation that is the trouble. What I am concerned with are the allocations, or rather the iniquity of them. The reasons given for urgency for applicants is that they are living in tents, caravans, converted garages, condemned houses, etc. Everybody knows this, but am I correct in reading from the article that those urgent cases in tents, etc., are to be in future moved directly to State houses, as was done last allocation, instead of first going through the Transit Camp? If so, there lies the iniquity. Where did the present transit tenants come from? They came from tents and caravans. They came from every place mentioned in the article. Many present tenants have served their time and have been patient, but do not expect them to be ever tolerant of tne idiosyncrasies of the allocation committees. With your permission I intend to place before the public every case where it can be proved that an injustice is done. Further, I am not keeping company with Dame Rumoqr. Cold Fact is my ally, and you can meet him in each and every case that I have placed and will place before your readers. If the Rehabilitation Department and State Advances Corporation will give an assurance that the present ideas will not be carried further, then the transit tenants will feel more at ease. And so will HENRY.