CLEARING OF SLUMS
HOUSING MILLION PEOPLE BIG BRITISH PROGRAMME. ESTIMATED COST '£95,000,000. (British Official Wireless.) r RUGBY, Oct. 31. In a broadcast discussion on slum clearances last night, the Health Minister. Sir Hilton Young, said that tin reply of the local authorities to the Government’s call for action was a programme for Idea ring away mor< chan 200.000 houses and rehousing more than one million people m fivi years. That, he said, would be a Very bio- effort. , It would cost about £95,000,000. U should emr.loy some 80,000 people in die bui’dmo- trade and related trades Since 1875 only 200.000 people had been rehoused by slum clearance. It was now proposed to rehouse one million people in about one-twelfth of that time.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 November 1933, Page 5
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