PEOPLE WITHOUT HOUSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)

PEOPLE WITHOUT HOUSES.

EX-SOLDIER'S TRIALS.

" WORSE THAN TRENCHES."

In consequence of the Government's failure to provide houses 12 families in Llanelly have for months had no home, except tents mado of old sacking and blankets. A colony of nearly 100. men, women and children, some of the latter only a few months old, live within a, mile of Llanelly near a wood exposed to all weathers, and sometimes ankle deep in mud. There are similar encampments all over South Wales. Most of these men are ex-service men, who had good homes before the war.

Lodging houses are also crowded with homeless people living under shocking conditions and paying far more for their shelter than the rent of a house, tho charge in most cases being Is a day. One ex-service man recently stated that conditions were far worso than in the trenches, and would be more serious in tho event of a severe winter.

A local councillor lias opened a fund to buy old railway carriages, which can be obtained at £5 each, and a number of Army huts, and it is hoped that these homeless people will soon have at least, a rain-proof dwelling.