OVERCROWDED

Grey River Argus, 24 June 1925, Page 2

OVERCROWDED

WELLINGTON 'S LOBULATION. \\ ELI .1 NGT’t »N, J une 23 The Wellington <’ity Council’s coni_ miller on housing has reported that over !<• per cent of the population is overcrowded: ’There are 62!' ope. loomed dwellings, occupied by 1222 people. In a few cases as many as live Io nine persons live in the same room. 'The .'ommit Ice estimated that th.* Council could build a house for £SI)(I, ami, if the land cost £HHI, it could with all charges be sold at a price hieh 2s*; a week would cover. 'l'he Council discussed the report, one member pointing out that land eoiil.l not be obtained for £lOO. Pending information ns to whether tlx* Government would advance *.190,(1(1(1, the report was merely rerei ved. Mr Mitchell, an ex.counci llor, ai.d Mr Watt, who had been experiment. ’Jig in standardised houses, announce that a five-roomed cottage of concrete <:, n be built for £6OO, and an extra room for £lOO, provided that they are nil <‘f the one design and all allowing £l5O for the Land. The purchase money <‘ould be paid off in 364 years at £1 's (»d a week for a four.roomcd house, * l,H ' Js (id for a live_roomed one.