"BACHELOR FLATS."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20363, 18 September 1929, Page 12

"BACHELOR FLATS."

COUNCIL'S BAN SUPPORTED.

SOCIAL WELFARE ASPECT.

TOWN-PLANNING VIEWPOINT.

Tho erection of "bachelor" fl(a»s within tho city was opposed in a roport submitted to the Auckland Town Planning Association last evening by Miss Alice Hasten, on behalf of tho lionising group. Completo support was given tho City Council in refusing to permit tho erection of tho flats, tho group's report stating that thoy wore highly undesirable from economic, hygienic and social considerations.

Strong views woro expressed zipon tho schome from the social wolfara aspect. Lower paid workers now in hostels and private houses would be tomptod to sharo tho cost of a flat in order to bo free from tho very wise restrictions imposed upon them for their own good.

" Theso restrictions are not irksome," the report statod. " Tho hostels not only give good valuo for money received, but allay tho anxiety of country parents who feel that thoir young folk are safo amid tho city's temptations wlien they livo at these places of accommodation. Tho proposed scheme docs not malco any specific provision for supervision of tenants from tho moral viewpoint. Tho committee is of opinion that buildings of tho proposed character should bo designed for accommodation of one sex only."

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

STRIKING ILLUSTRATIONS

TO-DAY'S SPLENDID ISSUE.

Tho extremely high standard of general oxcollenco which lias mado tho Auckland Weekly News illustrations world famous is well maintained in tho current issue published to-day. A large pictorial section contains a wealth of up-to-date subjects remarkable for their general interest appeal and superior quality of reproduction.

Tho annual point-to-point steeplechase meetings of tho Waikato and Pakuranga Hunt Clubs arc generously featured, wliilo anothor splendid pago is provided by scones at tho Ruapehu Ski Club's annual outing at Tongariro National Park. Tho progress of work on tho Main Trunk railway deviation at Tawa Flat is also well illustrated.

A collodion of scenic gems from the beautiful Wanganui River and surrounding country appears on tho two centre pages, together with a striking panoramic view of the City of Wanganui, from I)urio Hill. The frontispieco is devoted to a pictorial record of tho Vice-Regal visit to Otaki last week.

Other New Zealand subjects include photographs taken at tho Wanganui Jockey Club's spring meeting; further pictures of the recent ceremonies in Wellington when Commodoro Geoffrey Blake assumed command of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy; photographs hearing on the shocking firo tragedy near Ilimitangi; and tho laying of tho founda-tion-stone o{ a new building at tho Roman Catholic Home of Compassion, Wellington.

Limerick's recent great victory at the Warwick Farm meeting in Australia; New Zealand Boy Scouts in England; and SI. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel to mark the twentieth anniversary of his first great achievement, are among interesting overseas items which keep the reader in touch with happenings in other lands.