BALLOT SYSTEM CEASES
STATE HOUSE ALLOCATION URGENCY AS BASIS (Por Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The ballot system in the allocation of State houses to tenants has been changed. It was stated by the Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong yesterday, that, so far as it is possible, the houses will be let according to the urgency of the cases and the circumstances of the applicants.
Mr. Armstrong said complaints had been made that persons who had been living in good circumstances had gained houses under the ballot system, whereas others who were practically living in hovels, and often with large families, were unable to gain houses. Every endeavour would be made to allocate the houses as they were finished in the order of the urgency of cases.
' Some persons in Auckland and Wellington were living under 'appalling conditions and the department had a body of inspectors who would visit the applicants' present homes and report on the conditions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 16
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