SLUM CLEARANCE
BIG EFFORT IN BRITAIN LOCAL BODIES’ PROGRAMME. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 31. (Received Nov. 1, at 5.5 p.m.) In a broadcast discussion on slum clearance the Minister of Health (Sir Hilton Young) said that the reply of local authorities to the Government’s call for action was a programme for clearing away more than 200,000 hou'ses and rehousing more than 1,000,000 people in five years. It would cost about £95,000,000 and it should employ some 80,000 people in the building trade and related trades. Since 1875 only 200,000 people haye been rehoused by slum clearance, and it was now proposed to rehouse 1,000,000 in about one-twelfth of that time. i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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112SLUM CLEARANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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