HOUSING IN BRITAIN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11860, 28 June 1919, Page 8

HOUSING IN BRITAIN.

* United Press Association—By Elec trie Telegraph—Copyright. Received dune 28, noon. London, June 27. Count Plunkett has inaugurated an Irish Dominion League, aiming at securing a settlement on the lines of Dominion Home Rule, creating a representative body of Nationalists and Unionists, whom the Government would consult. LONDON’S IMMENSE TASK. Received June 28, noon. London, June 27. Lord Birkenhead, in introducing the Housing Bill in the House of Lords, said housing was a problem of staggering gravity. Lord Downham emphasised the emergency character of the measure, which was leading straight to national disaster A less the country reverted to private building as soon as possible. * Lord Downham added that the London County Council was building ten thousand houses daring the next two years. The Council’s estimate for building the first lot of four-roomed cottages was £IOSB each, including £2OO for land, roads and sewers. Provision for half a million houses was required at least, which meant the raising of five hundred million sterling.