CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND
HOUSING DIFFICULTIES In spite of recent criticism of New Zealand conditions by dissatisfied English immigrants there are sti}l plenty of people in Britain who cast envious eyes towards the Dominion and conditions which prevail h6re. An Englishman resident in Dunedin recently had a letter from a relative in Tweedsmuir, Cheshire, in which she expressed her appreciation of food parcels he had sent and said it was “ a tonic to get something different and something' for which you do not have to stand in a queue.” The electric power situation was proving as trying to housewives in England as it haa been in New Zealand. “ Our electricity is cut off from 9 a.m. to noon and then again from 2 to 4 p.m.,” the writer stated. This correspondent instanced the case of her niece to show how difficult the housing situation was in England Her niece’s husband was killed during the bombing, and the property on which she rented a bungalow was sold, and she had to leave because the new owner wanted the bungalow for his gardener and wife. Meanwhile, she was looking for a house, which was impossible to get unless one paid over £2OOO.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26543, 19 August 1947, Page 6
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199CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND Otago Daily Times, Issue 26543, 19 August 1947, Page 6
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