THE HOUSING PROBLEM
SEVERAL SCHEMES FOR LONDON WORKERS’ HOMES AND GARAGES. (Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright i LONDON, February 1. (Received Feb. 2, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr Neville Chamberlain (Ministei* of Health), when laying the foundation stones of the new County Council workmen’s dwellings, costing £400,000, at St. Pancras, announced a large scheme whereby big areas of working class houses insufficiently bad for demolition would be repaired and improved. About 100,000 such were available in London annually This would bo a great step towards solving the housing problem, and 22 other London housing schemes were also being considered. He congratulated the council not only on providing workmen’s dwellings but garages to meet the expected in crease in motors.
Colonel Levita, chairman of the Housing Committee, referring to criticisms, declared that it was unwise to construct high buildings in the neighbourhood of rail termini in view of the possibility of air raids. —Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20323, 3 February 1928, Page 9
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