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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 March 1925, Page 9

Conditions in Sydney are not alluring from the point of view of home life, judging by the description given by Mr. J. O’fJonpvan, retired Commissioner of Police in New Zealand, who returned recently from a six months’ sojourn in the Australian city. Verylittle building is going oh for the provision of homes for workers, he informed a Post reporter, and flats are being constructed in all parts of the town and suburbs. Several' immense buildings, twelve and fourteen stories high, containing many flats, he said, had been erected, and many of the old mansions in the finer parts of the city wore being converted into flats. These were let at anything from two guineas to twenty' guineas each per week. In some respects the cheaper flats were very convenient to the working classes, who could not secure houses at the same rental, but existence/ in a flat tended to do away with all borne life. There was'no room for children to play, nor was there sufficient, drying accommodation for washing The women spent their days out in thp parks' on the Ferry boats, and surfing at the seaside. Returning in the late afternoon, the,v purchased the victuals for the even ing meal at convenient shops, and when the meal over they went off outside again to the pictures or in search of other amusement. There was no home life, and no provision was being made for “the rainy day.”