NEEDED REPAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26199, 9 July 1946, Page 9

NEEDED REPAIRS

FLATS AND BOARDING HOUSES MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 8. Arrangements have been made by the City Council for materials to be made available to bring sub-standard apartments and boarding houses in the cityup to the modified minimum requirements which were authorised in May This announcement was made when, at a deputation to the Mayor, Mr J. A. C. Allum, on the housing problem, members of the Amalgamated Apartment and Boarding House Proprietors’ Association spoke of the difficulties of securing the materials necessary to bring their places up to standard. “ The Government has advised the building controller in Auckland that where amenities in apartments and boarding houses do not reach the authorised standard, necessary materials are to be made available,” said the City Council’s chief sanitary inspector, Mr H. Pauli. “If, in future, we ask for improvements to be made and you cannot get the materials we will see that they are made available,” said the Mayor. “We do not intend to ask for the impossible to be done, but the council is determined to improve living conditions. It is going to be a tremendous job. but we have to face it.”