CLEARANCE OF GHETTOS
SLUMS OF WELLINGTON
DOCTOR URGES NEED
(l’er Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
“A crying need in Wellington is to efface the ghettos, meanness and s«|tmlor in the lower Adelaide road and part of To Aro,” said Sir Janies Elliott-, of Wellington, in giving an opinion, as a medical man and a citizen, ot a proposal to combine the centennial exhibition with a city slum clearance project. Sir James added: “Let ns have an exhibition by all means, but how illogical and absurd to hold up slum demolition because of an exhibition. It is a question for the Government with its town-planning scheme, or tor tin' ( itv Corporation. It has come forward too late, yet there are advocates tor a turt her postponement. “It will cost too much now, it is said. Well it will never cost less, and it has to he done. It may need further legislation, because the failure of town-planning has been everywhere due to the inaction of local authorities, and more coercive powers appear to he necessary.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 5
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