HOMES FOR FAMILIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 8

HOMES FOR FAMILIES.

PROGRESS OF CITY SCHEMEPREFERENCE IN SELECTIpN. i WORKERS WITH CHILDREN. ' Applications for the remaining, 22 houses of the 50 workers' dwellings that are being erected at Gxey Lynn '': by tbei City Council closed 'on'."; Thursday:; :Th<; applications received were considerably in excess of the nutobei of bouses to b<k allotted, f: The selection of suitable tenanti has been placed in'the bands of the town clerk, who has made it a rule not to alloif any home to other than married couploi* with young.; familiejs. as it is felt that such families have the;; greatest difficulty m securing suitable iaccommcidation. Some weeks ago the City Council held a ballot for the first :28 of the Grey Lynn houses, for which there w er« 144 appli captions. Twenty-eight names were duawtij. svith an additional 12 as emergencies. This proved to be a wise precaution as a number of the successful applicants either withdrew or were Jound to be unsuitable, some even being found to be single men. It was in making the necessary adjustments that the council decidedito. placif the decision in the hands of the town clerk, and he was able to personally satisfy himself that these admirable little houses were being occupied by those for whom the scheme was originally framed. There has, howfever, been some suggestion that under this revised method emi ployees of the council were given prefeir* , ence, but this is entirely without fbundai tion,. as. the council's employees are placed i on the same footing, as other applicants i The first five of the 22 houses are now practically.ready, and the remainder will become available for occupation in batches up to about the middle of September!."' ;<; ; ! .•'..'•,; '.?.,:■'' ' ':'' In a report following an inspection <>f the complete houses the city engineer, Mr. W. E. Bush, stated that generally speaking everything was satisfactory, but that most of the tenant-owners, had complained of the want of adequate tion in the wash-hoiises. He felt thitt these complaints were not without foundation, but the matter could be remedied by the fixing of a vent pipe at a cost if approximately £3 per house. The City Council has' now authorised this expenditure.- .■' ■' ' , -- : :^\,-' : ' : '.':: ■■■''■ -P.