MUNICIPAL HOUSING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10634, 6 July 1920, Page 7

MUNICIPAL HOUSING

EXTENDING THE SCHEME GARDEN SUBURBS AT WILTON’S BUSH AND KHANDALLAH. Questioned by a “Times” reporter yesterday, tho Mayor (Mr J- P- Luke) sketched tho progress being made with the City Council’s housing scheme, and the proposals for an extension of the scheme as soon as tho present works aro sufficiently far advanced. Tho Mayor replied that the council was at present pushing on with tho erection of the houses on the property acquired some time ago at Northland. Tho number of houses that the council proposed to erect on that site was 50 or 60. Tho council had been obliged to form roads as access to the estate, as that particular block more readily offered an- opportunity for relieving the congestion in connection with tho housing problem. The council had some time ago purchased about 150 acres overlooking Wilton’s Bush, lying between Wadestown and Northland. As soon as tho Northland project was well advanced, this land would be made more accessible by the construction of roads from Northland and Wadestown. This area would bo developed as a garden suburb, being laid out on the most modern linos and being reserved exclusively for residential purposes. The council had also acquired about TSO acres at Khandallah with the idea of extending tho building scheme; ho hoped that property would be connected up with Northland or Wadestown. The scheme at Khandallah would be carried out similarly to that at Wilton’s Bush, -on garden suburb lines, and the locality would then bo an added feature to the already -very fine suburbs on that side of the city. Some difficulty would be presented.in such a remote suburb in connecting up with the drainage, water supply and other services, but both propositions would be pushed on with at tho utmost rapidity as soon os opportunity permitted. The , great principle was to got some houses ready as soon as possible, and the council could more readily do this by confining its works for the present to Northland than by spreading out its activities. In conclusion, Mr Luke remarked that seven of the houses at Northland had already been completed.