PAPER HOUSES.

Northern Advocate, 23 August 1924, Page 12 (Supplement)

PAPER HOUSES.

WHY BUILD FOR THE AGES?

"The greatest benefactor we could have in the housing problem would be the. man who could teach us how to build houses out of paper," said Mr Neville Chamberlain, M.P., at an international conference organised by the People 's ' League of Health and opened at the British Empire Exhibition, on., the causes, treatment and prevention of disease.

"We are building houses to-day which are expected to last 80 years," said Mr Chamberlain. Long before their life was exhausted these houses would be completely out of touch with what the general idea of houses should be. The really great thing would be to find some material ao cheap that we could afford to scrap our houses as soon as they became out of date and remodel them according to our constantly progressing ideas.

Mr James Stewart, M.P., Parliamentary TJnder-Secretary for Health in Scotland, believed houses could be built with lighter materials than at present, but Professor Leonard Hill said that the houses did not very much matter; the need was for gardens round them.

"The prevention of disease is the simplest thing in the world," said Sir William Arbuthnot at a later session. "If the experts on food would put their heads together and issue a book which would teach people the sort of food they ought to eat a tremendous amount of disease and misery would bo avoided. ,.