HOUSING PROBLEM
DISGRACEFUL CONDITIONS IN MELBOURNE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, October 23. Before the Select Committee appointed by the Victorian Parliament to inquire regarding the housing problem, the president of tho Minimum Allotment and Anti-Slum Housing Crusade Committee declared that in some of tho poorer areas tho housing conditions wore a perfect disgrace to a young country. Other houses wore such that nobody should even be allowed to keep a pig there. Rents, which five years ago were 8s a week, were now 16s 6d. A police constable stated that In a certain quarter only two houses out of sixty-five had baths, and that of these one was dilapidated, and the other never 'used. Tho houses in this quarter were almost exclusively inhabited by Indians, Chinese, and Assyrians, who worked hard as ice-cream vendors, street musicians, and hawkers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8560, 24 October 1913, Page 7
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138HOUSING PROBLEM New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8560, 24 October 1913, Page 7
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