WORKMEN'S HOMES.

North Otago Times, 5 December 1908, Page 2

WORKMEN'S HOMES.

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Well ngton, Dec, 4, Among 'tlio loan proposals for next year, which havo been passed by the City Council, 5s an item '''Workers Home, 'Adelaide Road, £27,000." The Council',s plans regarding this matter are hot* yot'settled, interviewed (today tiie Ma,you (.the Hon, T, W. Hislop) sail "The idea was that the Council night use part of the old tramway shed sites for the purpose of putting up suitable places for workers, Wo havo also certain properties which wo havo acquired for strcot widens purposes. We have other schemes in view, but the mntdepends to some extent ou ilio legislature," Mb JlisloP then hinted that tlio Council might seek powers similar to t'hoso conferred on the Glasgow City Corporation for talking lands and buildings cpmpulsorily for workmen's dwellings. That body had power, (or instance, to purchase land and buildings for the value of the land alone in cases where the buildings were in the nature of a slum. Of course that was a power which would need to lie carefully safeguarded, and lie did not know whether there would be any chance just yet to get that power from Parliament. Then it was a question whether the homes should be built in the city at places convenient for the tenants or out in the suburbs. Nothing was definitely settled, He thought, hojvever, that a beginning could well ip made on the'old tfamwaysite in Adelaide Rpad,