STATE HOUSE RENTALS
HIGH LEVEL DEFENDED "Can you explain the necessity for charging such extremely high rentali tor houses being built by the Government in Palmerston North?" was a question put to Mr. Ormond Wilson, M.P.. at the conclusion of an address. In reply, Mr. Wilson denied that the rentals were extremely high. Admittedly, .he said, they were in excess of what relief workers or those on the lowest wage could pay to-day. but the Government was looking tc the future. They were good houses and were going to last for (iO years. The Government could have built cheaper houses, within the range of the relief worker to-day, but it would not have been proper to build houses on the false economy that New Zealand was going to have relief workers always. The Government was desirous that the houses should be a credit to it and to New Zealand in the years to come, and bv the time it had pulled down the slums existing to-day, the person; occupying the houses now being buil 4 would be the lowest-paid workers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19398, 9 August 1937, Page 12
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180STATE HOUSE RENTALS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19398, 9 August 1937, Page 12
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