War Changes In State Housing Scheme
(Special) AUCKLAND, This Day. No large-scale slum clearance or remodelling schemes are likely to be undertaken until after the war, explained the Mayor of Auckland (Mr. Allum) in reference to his comments at a meeting of the City Council regarding possible changes in the State housing policy. He pointed out again that lack of materials for servicing large housing estates on vacant land had made a continuance of this type of development impossible. The Government was now concentrating any building on vacant sections in the city- where services such as drainage, sewerage, water and transport Were already available.
The council had been concerned for some time with the need to remodel certain areas in the city, said Mr. Allum. Plans to accomplish this had been asked for, but it had not yet been possible for those plans to be completed. In this work Government assistance would be needed. He had learned, from his discussions with the late Mr. Armstrong, then Minister for Housing, that the Government was considering a revolutionary type of construction to meet this need. Building of a auasi-temporary nature would be needed to house people while any remodelling was in progress. That was, however, definitely a post-war job.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1942, Page 8
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