Scramble for Houses
CONSIDERABLE SHORTAGE IN CITY. < 'if a hundred houses were placed in my hands for letting to-night, I would have them all taken by noon to-mor-row.” This statement by a well-known city land agent epitomises the house shortage problem which is facing Palmerston North at the present time.
Tho agent said tho position was so acute that tlioso desiring houses had milkmen, bakers and other tradesmen aetiug as scouts for them, with the result that long before a house became vacant, it was taken by someone else. There were quite a number of new buildings being erected, but they were by no means sufficient to meet requirements.
The demand for good flats was equally as heavy, the agent informed the “Times,” and this statement is corroborated by an owner who has four flats in course of erection. If lie had been building twenty-four instead of four, he would not have met the applications received.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 71, 25 March 1936, Page 4
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156Scramble for Houses Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 71, 25 March 1936, Page 4
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