WORKERS' DWELLINGS BILL
SOME DUNEDIN OPINIONS. [by telegraph,—own correspondent.] Dunedin, Friday. Several property agents in Timaru, when interviewed on the Government's scheme for workmen's homes, have expressed the opinion that the scheme would materially assist working men provided the rents did not exceed 12s 6d per week. The opinion was also expressed that 30 or 10 such homes could lie erected with profit to the workers in Timaru, where rents for four and five-roomed cottages range from 8s up to 17s 6d per week, very few being lei at the lower figure. It is estimated that from 25 to "30 per cent, of the workers' wages in Timaru goes in rent. A few years back it used to be considered that a day's wage shorn,, cover a week's rent, that" is for a working man, but today it. takes two days' wages to do this. Building is said to be dearer in Timaru than ill Christchurch or Dunedin, and to this are attributed in some measure the present high rents.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 6
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