WORST PLACE TO LIVE!
In Mining Camp. MINISTER’S ADMISSION. (Special to Argus.) WELLINGTON, September 1. When the question of housing conditions in the mining townships was raised in the Hous? to-day, Hon. Mr Anderson described Burnett’s Face, Buller, South Island, as the worst .place anyone woud want to see, let alone live in. The Minister was quite frank in his admission that the housing conditions in some of the mining towns were in a disgraceful condition. He had been informed, however, that the people who were living there wished to do so. Mr P. Fraser: “Then you could not congratulate them on tlicir taste?” Mr Anderson: “I assure you I cannot. ’ ’ The Minister added that the housing conditions at Hikurangi had become at one place that the company had been given notice to remedy the state of affairs. Before this was done the mine became flooded, and the company’s obligatoin was necessarily the dewatering of the mine before fixing its housing.
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Grey River Argus, 2 September 1927, Page 5
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