DISUSED HUTMENTS
ACCOMMODATION FOR UNEMPLOYED MAGISTRATE ENDORSES SUGGESTION. (Peb United Press Association.) ELTHAM, September 19. The suggestion that the Unemployment Board should make available to the unemployed disused Public Works hutments was commended by the magistrate, Mr W, H. Woodward, S.M., to-day. Arising out of a tenement possession case, Mr J. L. Weir, solicitor for the landlord, said that many relief workers could not afford to pay rent out of their slender earnings, and did not know which way to turn for a roof above their heads should they be dispossessed. Added to this was the fact that there was an acute shortage of houses in Eltham. Counsel suggested that the Public Works Department at Stratford should shift to Eltham a number of hutments formerly used by the workers on the Stratford Main Trunk Railway, and rent them at a small sum to the unemployed. Endorsing the suggestion, the magistrate asked a leading land agent, who was in court, to reduce the matter to writing so that he (the magistrate) could make representations in the proper quarter. It was mentioned in court that in many other districts there must be a large number of these hutments which could be placed at the disposal of the unemployed. _____
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22063, 20 September 1933, Page 5
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