HOUSING PROBLEM
MELBOURNE, October 25
A select committee appointed by the Victorian Parliament is inquiring into the housing problem. The president of the Minimum Allotment and Anti-slum Housing Crusade Committee declared in evidence that in some of the poorer areas the housing conditions were a perfect disgrace to a young country. Even in other areas there were* houses such as nobody should be allowed to keep even a pig in. Rents (said witness) were now, for the same class of dwelling, 16s 6d. A police constable stated that in a certain quarter only two houses out of 65 had baths, of which one was dilapidated and the other had never been used. This quarter was almost exclusively inhabited by Indians, Chinese, and Assyrians, who worked hard as ice-cream vendors, street musicians, or hawkers.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 26
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133HOUSING PROBLEM Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 26
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