OVERCROWDING IN CITIES
According to the Auckland # Health Officer fourteen persons are living in O' four-roomed house in that city. unfortunately Wellington flatter it* self that no similar conditions exist here. For instance the demand for email cheap houses induced one suburban landlord to divide his row of six room houses and to thus form a row of three room houses, which have all the appearance of decent habitations. In such division of* ten live two families. Pernans th-U rondition i* not the fanit of the authorities, and it may be that there are people who oare for such sociabilities es are possible with the next door neigh' hour half an inch away, through some flimsy match-lining. It may be too that each conditions are destructive of that (home-life that Is considered to be the* meet precious possession of the British. It is pitiable, however, that in a country that has room for all, it is extremely difficult to get rooms for each.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6314, 14 September 1907, Page 11
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163OVERCROWDING IN CITIES New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6314, 14 September 1907, Page 11
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