STATE HOUSING PLANS.
o EXPANSION OF ACTIVITIES. QUESTION OF IMMIGRATION. The provision of housing for the prospective immigrants into the Dominion has been the subject of correspondence between the Prime Minister and Mr. P. Fraser, M.P. The latter wrote that "no provision is being made for the proper and adequate housing of the thousands of working families who are coming out to this country at the invitation of the Government." In his reply, Mr. Massey says the Government intends to make every- effort to increase the number of houses in the Dominion to meet the requirements of the people. Including about 120 workers' dwellings at present under construction by the housing branch of the Labour Department there are about 400 houses being built in Wellington and suburbs. Throughout the Dominion there are in all some, 183 workers' dwellings now in course of erection, in addition to which definite negotiations are proceeding for a further 122. Information 'is being obtained as to the actual number being built throughout the Dominion by local bodies and private enterprise, and the number that is in immediate prospect. Negotiations are being conducted by the Housing Branch for a large supply of timber from an area of Crown land in the "North Island, and for the manufacture of joinery and the importation of those building materials that cannot be readily obtained here. Now that work at normal output has been resumed in the coal mines, it is anticipated that full supplies of cement wi'l soon be available for the building of concrete houses. In regard to the class of persons who would be brought to the Dominion under the immigration proposals of the Government, the Prime Minister states : —" The shortage of houses has been made known to the High Commissioner, and preference is bein" given by the Immigration Department to those persons who are not likely to require separate housing accommodation, such as domestic workers and farm hand?" __________
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17444, 14 April 1920, Page 7
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