WORKERS' DWELLINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7445, 20 May 1911, Page 4

WORKERS' DWELLINGS

LAND NEGOTIATIONS. , SCOX’E OF THE EXTENDED. The Minister of. Labour is able to at onoe make a start ui>on his scheme for providing workers’ dwellings, euitablo iand being available at Auckland and Palmerston North. . ■ . . Mr Millar stated to a "New Zealand Times" ■ repretchtative yesterday that thirty-four acres of Government land at Terraco End railway station, Palmerston North, has been taken lor.subdivision into quarter-acre sections under the scheme by which the tenants will be able to select their own design from a doaen different ones prepared by the Labour Department’s architect. Land is also to be utilised at EJlereue and Otahuhu, in the near vicinity of Auckland, and negotiations -for sites at Wellington, New Xdymouth, Tlmaru, Invercargill. Dunedin, and Foxton are going l on. Asked as to the prospects of securing cheap and . suitable land in ‘Wellington, the Minister said he had refused two offers because the price was out of all reason, but there were at least three other places available, and he believed it would be possible to get what is wanted. " vVe arc now notifying ait the tenants of the existing workers' dwellings," said Mr Millar, "that they may purchase their houses on* the same conditions as. those set out in the.scheme just brought into/oporatlpn."