THE HOUSING PROBLEM.
TO THE EDITOE. Siu,—l notice in your issue of the 25th inst. you report a moderate attendance of members of the Citizens’ Housing Committee, when the principal business was a lecture on the housing scheme by Mr W. T. Strand, Mayor of Lower Hutt. 1 hope the committee will be successful in getting the Prime Minister to put a Bill through vhe House similar to the Hutt Vai>y Settlement Bill. I think the Dunedin City Council should do its utmost to assist in every possible way. In connection with this housing problem, I supply some information which shows the comparatively small proportion obtaincl by ' ..go ol trie £2.759,400 advanced during period of 1(129-1926 by the Advances to Settlers’ Department for advances to workers. The application for loans by Auckland province numbered 1443, amount advanced £1,226,780; Wellington applications 932, advanced £840,865; Canterbury applications 403, advanced £323,355; Otago applications 134, advanced £95,445. Of £2,759,400 advanced during the year ended March 31. 1926, £2,460.214, or 89.16 per cent., was for the actual erection ol dwellings; the number of loans for this purpose was 2738 and the average advance £899. I notice with very great pleasure that “no member of the Hutt committee had ever received a penny piece for his services.”—l am, etc., A Home.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20060, 29 March 1927, Page 7
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