WORKERS’ HOMES.
CHRISTCHURCH WANTS A LOAN. (Pan United Press Association.i CHRISTCHURCH, August 20. The City Council to-night decided to make application to the Government for a special loan of £20,000 for providing workers’ homes. In tho course of the discussion, Cr Winsor said the council bad some 20 or 50 applicants for homes on its books at tho present time. It would take four years to satisfy these people at the rate of tho present loan of £SOOO a year. The site conditions were bad at Northcote, but tho houses themselves were not so bad as was alleged. It would be bettor for the council to ask the Government for sufficient money to satisfy the present 20 or 30 applicants. Cr Beavon said the council should do something for those people who at present were forced to live in insanitary dwellings. The Mayor said (hero were 29 houses now on tho books, and £23,000 would be required to satisfy that demand.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18946, 21 August 1923, Page 7
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