Cost of Housing

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 15

Cost of Housing

Sir,—Figures relating to a housing survey of Greater Wellington may not have been published but figures relating to Government housing activities in Greater Wellington have been published on several occasions. It is certainly not suggested that the present Government are building houses at £423 or less, but details have been quoted showing the vast differences in prices of the present Government houses and the socalled “Massey” houses built at Miramar. If the “shacks” called houses built at Miramar during the regime of the Massey Government cost as little at £B2B then all 1 can say is that those who were unfortunate enough to buy them were well and truly “soaked’ and in some Instances no doubt the job of paying lor them will be passed on to their grandchildren.—Yours, etc. ELECTOR. [The statements which the correspondent. questioned did not relate to State housing but to the housing survey in Wellington city. It was not stated that the houses at Miramar 'cost £828; that figure was given as the average cost of all houses built in the Dominion during the last two years of the Massey Government. If the Miramar houses are “shacks” it is reasonable to assume that their cost was well below the average. The correspondent’s assertion that they cost two or three times as much as the new Slate houses remains unexplained. —Ed. Herald.]