NEW ZEALAND SLUMS.
During an interview in Dunedin, Earl Grey said he had been astonished to hear since his arrival in New Zealand that in some of the principal centres slumdom was in actual existence. If that were a fact—and he meant to make searching enquiries as he proceeded northwards—he could not impress too strongly on the Government and the people the urgent necessity for immediately adopting remedial legislation, whereby they would not only remove, but absolutely extirpate, such a foul canker on the body politic in a coming country like this, where the conditions for the carrying out of town planning were so favorable. Garden cities should not be uncommon in New Zeauand, and the people could not do better than take a leaf out of I'ritain's book, and adopt the John Burns Act to the country's present necessities.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 5 March 1914, Page 5
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140NEW ZEALAND SLUMS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 5 March 1914, Page 5
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