LIVING IN HOVELS.
SCOTLAND’S HOUSING PROBLEM
LONDON, Oct. 1. Mr Baldwin (the Prime Minister), speaking at Glasgow, said - that in order to encourage mass production the Government had decided to increase the Wheatley Housing Subsidy from £l6O to £2OO for the first 4000 houses of alternative types in Scotland. He declared that whereas England" was overtaking the housing arrears, the position in Scotland was getting worse. . “People are living and dying in hovels,” he said, “and the Government cannot stand by without making its utmost effort to remedy the position.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 October 1925, Page 11
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