CITY’S HOUSING PROBLEM.
PALMERSTON NORTH CONDITIONS (By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, July 22. Palmerston North’s housing problem was mentioned in the House of Representatives to-night by Mr J. Hodgeus, who criticised an Opposition promise that if it became the Government if would grant the freehold to State housing tenants. Mr Hodgeus declared he sincerely ho|>ed this would not be iollowed by the experience of the depression, when thousands of working men’s houses reverted hack to the State Advances Department. A housing survey in Palmerston North, Mr Hodgeus added, had shown there were 401 sub-standard houses, 88 per cent, being occupied by tenants and 12 per cent, by the owners. Since • then the Government had built 256 houses and had 74 more under construction, hut there was still a waiting list of 421 people who wanted a roof over 1 heir heads The housing survey in 1927 disclosed there were 53,800 sub-standard houses in the Dominion. There was now an additional responsilility to provide lioines for the soldiers who would return, flic member for Palmerston North concluded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 23 July 1941, Page 6
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176CITY’S HOUSING PROBLEM. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 23 July 1941, Page 6
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