HOUSING SURVEY
Sir, —Two pertinent points are suggested by your account of the housing survey to be made by local bodies at the direction of tho Government. One is that local bodies are to set up an elaborate and expensive organisation that will constitute a. heavy tax on the unfortunate ratepayer. The other is that practically all the information required could be ascertained by the Government itself from tlie last census returns. Surely a more glaring instance of bureaucratism could hardly he imagined. Bather than go to tho trouble of silting out information expensively acquired in tho national census, the Government prefers to shelve responsibility and place it on the backs of the local authorities. Seemingly it is not concerned at the idea of further burdening the taxpayer with a needless expense and with irritating the public generally by an invasion of homes by investigators, whose questions and inspections are likely to be resented by IliailV. HOtTSK.HOI.nKR.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22619, 6 January 1937, Page 13
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