COTTAGES TO BE ERECTED

Southland Times, Issue 23552, 5 July 1938, Page 8

COTTAGES TO BE ERECTED

USE OF PENSIONERS IN CHRISTCHURCH — : PERMISSION SOUGHT TO RAISE LOAN (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. Permission to taise a loan of £25,000 with which to erect 50 cottages for oldage pensioners is to be sought by the Christchurch City Council. This was decided tonight by the council on the recommendation of a sub-committee ot the Housing Committee, which was established recently to investigate the proposals for accommodating old-age pensioners and others in poor circumstances. , .. . The site to be used for the first lb cottages is a portion of the council s Waterworks Department’s yards in Sydenham, access being given by Johnston street. Negotiations are under way, according to the sub-committee s report for the purchase of another site in Salisbury street. The council also approved that Crs M. B. Howard and E. H. Andrews be added to the sub-committee and that the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women be invited to appoint representatives to act as advisory members of the sub-com-mittee. It is proposed that the consent of the Local Government Loans Board be obtained to raise £25,000 at 3 per cent. Cr J. S. Barnett said he expected that many more than 50 houses would be built eventually. Already possibly more than three times that number of applicants for cottages had been received.