ORDER. TO VACATE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 193, 17 July 1941, Page 3

ORDER. TO VACATE

FAMILIES IN MOTOR CAMP. (Press Assn) AUCKLAND. July 16. Twelve families living in tents tit Western Springs Motor Camp, who received notices yesterday from the City Council to vacate the place, held a meeting last night and decided that, as no houses or Hats are available, they would remain until the matter had been taken to Court. When a reporter visited the camp, today ho found the campers living in very damp conditions. One family of live, the eldest child being seven years, were in a leaky tent. “I was transferred to Auckland but could not find a house and 1 cannot afford to pay board for all of us. What am 1 to do 'i asked the father. When the Mayor (Mr All tun) was interviewed he said some of the people had taken to using the cunip as a residential site. One family had been there for nine, months at id others for varying periods since January. What had brought the matter to a head was that a man and his wife were rejxirtcd to be living in the camp in a leaky tent. Western Springs camp was one of the best in summer but unsuitable for living purposes in winter. The regulations were being revised.