MUNICIPAL HOUSES.
CHRISTCHURCH SUGGESTION.
In opposing the sale of a block of Christchurch land, belonging to the municipality, Mr. McCullough suggested at a meeting of the City Council that instead of selling the area the council should try the experiment of erecting upon it municipal houses for the purpose of housing tho poor. Mr. Otley contended that if the city erected municipal houses it would net secure sufficient rent to pay the interest on them. The Mayor said the Works Committee had gone into the question of erecting municipal houses, but had decided that in view of the present price of materials such a course was impossible. Mr. Hayward said the only way the erection of workmen's dwellings upon the property by the council would pay would be to erect them in terraces, and people out hero would not stand terraces.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 8
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