STATE RENTAL FLATS
BUILDINGS IN LEITH STREET PLANS BEING PREPARED The Housing Department in Wellington is now preparing working drawings for the development of fiats in Leitn street, and as soon as they are completed, tenders for the erection of tne buildings will be called. Announcing this in an interview with a Daily Times reporter yesterday, Mr P. G. Connolly, M.P., said that the buildings would be three storeys high, and a spacious garden area for both vegetables and flowers would be provided. In all, Mr Connolly added, there would be 62 flats, containing 28 with one bedroom each and 34 with two bedrooms each, to house an estimated population of 192. In the first instance Block A and B, comprising seven onebedroom flats and nine two-bedroom flats, would be completed. ’ This will mark the first occasion on which such flats have been erected in Dunedin,” said Mr Connolly, “and it is expected that they will prove as popular here as they are in the northern centres." There were many family houses being rented by couples without children or with only one of a family, he added, and the erection of these flats would allow them to vacate their homes in favour of larger families. v
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26175, 11 June 1946, Page 4
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