WORKMEN'S HOMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13926, 7 December 1908, Page 6

WORKMEN'S HOMES.

A WELLINGTON SCHEME.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Saturday. Among the loan proposals for tho next year which have boon passed by the City Council is an item " workers' homes, Adelaide Road, £2/,000." Tho Council's plans regarding this matter are not yet settled. In an interview the ' Mayor (the Hon. T. Y. Hislop) said: ".The idea was that the Council might uue part of the old tiramway sheds site for the purpose of putting up suitable homes for workers. We have also certain properties which we have acquired for street-widen-ing purposes. We have other schemes in view, but the matter depends to some extent on the Legislature." Mr. Hialop then hinted that the Council might seek powers similar to those conferred on the Glasgow City Corporation for taking lands and buildings compulsorily for workmen's dwellings. That body had power, for instance, to purchase land and buildings for the value of the land alone in cases whore the buildings were in i.he nature of a slum. Of course, that was a power which would need to be carefully safeguarded, and he did not know whether there would Ik- any chance just yet to get that power from Parliament. Then it was a question whether the homos should bo built in tho city at places convenient for the tenants or out in the suburbs. Nothing was definitely settled. Ho thought, however, that a beginning could well be made on the old tramway site in Adelaide Road.