HOUSING ACCOMMODATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1919, Page 5

HOUSING ACCOMMODATION

REPRESENTATIONS BY RETURNED SOLDIERS. Press Association.) * WELLINGTON, March 26. The question of the provision of housing accommodation for returning soldiers was discussed by the War Relief Association to-day, and a resolution passed that owing to the shortage of houses in the larger towns of New Zealand the Government at once proceed to erect houses in the principal centres, and, that houses when built should be Bold to soldiers on easy terms.

Another resolution urges the Government to remove the limitation placed on amounts advanced by the Advances to Settlers Department in order that soldiers may be enabled to acquire houses for themselves under the provisions of the Act The War Relief Association passed a resolution that as the rights of soldiers' wives and children are recognised when a pension is made permanent, and as it is impossible lor any man who has a wife and children to live on 30s a week, the Government be again urged that where at provisional pension certificate is issued to married-soldiers a similar pro- ' visional certificate should be made for hia wife and children.