RAPIDLY TAKING SHAPE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 13

RAPIDLY TAKING SHAPE

STATE HOUSING SCHEME REPLY TO CRITICISM TOWN-PLANNING DESIGN (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Tho Government's housing scheme is rapidly taking shape and there have been import tint developments during the past few days, indicating thru the scheme is going' to be one of the most important ever undertaken by a Government in New Zealand. Air. Wilson, of the firm of Messrs. Glimmer and Forde, architects, of Auckland, is to take up the position of architectural adviser to the Director of Housing Construction, and the Director of Town Planning, Mr. B. L. Hammond, will advise from the townplanning aspect. In discussing the housing question generally to-day, the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Finance, Mr. J. A. Lee, said that there had been criticism in regard'to the Orakei area in Auckland. D had been stated that it was possible that there would be fair-sized bungalows for higher-paid skilled workers, or lh.it there might be cottages similar to those built by the Auckland City Council at Grey Lynn, or the standard type of railway cottage.

Mr. Lee said there would be nothing nke that, .and it was more than possible that there would not be two house's alike in one street. The houses would not only be for higher paid workers. The Prime Minister had determined that working people should have their share of the choice sites, its well as their shares of the valleys. Areas would be designed on the best; town-planning'principle, and the Housing Department felt that the si heme it would put into operation would make Orakei and oilier areas such as the Hutt Valley garden suburbs in the true sense of the term. It is undertsood that while houses will be constructed to a certain standard, those applying for houses will be allowed to select their own designs.