UNUSED HUTMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 250, 19 September 1933, Page 8

UNUSED HUTMENTS.

VALUE TO UNEMPLOYED. Per Press Association. ELTHAM, Sept. 19. A suggestion that the Unemployment Board make available to the unemployed disused Public Works hutments was commended by the Magistrate, Mr AV. H. Woodward, S.M., to-day. Arising out of a tenancy possession case, Mr J. L. Weir, Solicitor for the landlord, said that many relief workers could not afford to pay rent out of their slender earnings and ditl not know which way to turn for a roof above their heads should they be dispossessed. Added to this was the fact that there was an acute shortage of houses in Eltham. Counsel suggested that the Public Works Department at Stratford should shift to Eltham a number of the hutments formerly used by the workers on the Stratford Main Trunk railway and rent them at a small sum to the unemployed. In endorsing the suggestion, the Magistrate asked a leading land agent who was in Court to reduce the matter to writing so that he (the Magistrate) could make representations in the proper quarter. It was mentioned in Court that in many other districts there must be a large number of these hutments which could be placed at tlic disposal of the unemployed.