HOUSE SHORTAGE.
BRITAIN’S PROBLEMS. LONDON, Sept. 2S. The Daily Telegraph states that a national housing; scheme has been devised to meet the shortage caused by the cessation of building during the war. The .scheme will probably provide for the erection of 200,000 cottages throughout the country. Tenants will be confined to workers under the National Insurance Act. The Local Government Hoard is conferring with local authorities regarding sites and cost. The Government will substantially ,subsidise the scheme. Tin; Local Government Hoard, according to a previous cabled niessage, admitted that there is a shortage of •500,000 houses; other authorities claim that there is a shortage of 1,000,000, involving an outlay of L 2.50,000.000. file Government commissioners at Glasgow, Kosyth and Dundee reported that there was immediate need for houses for 100.000 workers, and the Harrow-iu-Furness commissioners state that hundreds of beds wore occupied by day and night.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10116, 25 October 1917, Page 8
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146HOUSE SHORTAGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10116, 25 October 1917, Page 8
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