STATE HOUSING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 October 1936, Page 8

STATE HOUSING.

SCHEAIE’S RAPID PROGRESS. VARIETY OF DESIGNS. (By' Telegraph—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 3. The Government’s housing scheme is rapidly taking shape and there have been important developments, during the past few days, indicating that the scheme is going to be one of the most important ever undertaken by the Government in New Zealand. Air AVilson, of the firm of Messrs Glimmer and Eorde, architects, _ of Auckland, is to take up the position of architectural adviser to the Director of Housing Construction, and the Director of Town Planning (Air Hammond) will advise him from the town-planning aspect. In discussing the housing question generally, to-day, the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Finance (Air J. A. Lee) said that there had been criticism in regard to the Orakei area, in Auckland. It had been stated that it was possible that there would be fairsized bungalows for the higher-paid skilled workers, or that there might be cottages similar to those built by the Auckland City Council at Grey Lynn, or the standard type of railway cottage. Air Lee said there would be nothing like that, and it was more than possible that there would not be two houses alike in one street. The houses would not only be for the higher paid workers. The Prime Alinister had determined that the working people should have their share of choice sites as well as their share of the valleys. The areas would be designed on the best town planning principles. and the Housing Department felt that the scheme it would put into operation "would make Orakei other areas, such as the Hutt Valley', garden suburbs in the true sense ot the term. It is understood that while tlie houses will be constructed to conform to a certain standard, those applying for houses will l>e allowed to select their own designs.