TIME FOR THOUGHT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3760, 25 May 1936, Page 5

TIME FOR THOUGHT

MEETING THE HOUSE SHORTAGE. The Prime Minister has stated that it is foe fixed determination of the Government to spend at least £3,000,000 on housing, though he does not anticipate that a Bill designed to give effect to this intention will make its appearance in Parliament before the mid-winter recess. There are reasons why the Government should take time to consider very carefully pro; posals for special expenditure on such a scale, especially as there has not yet been even a hint as to the form which side of the plan will taTteT In any case, a comprehensive housing policy is not to be evolved tn a day, and it has to be remembered that as yet there are virtually no reliable statistics relating to the extent of the shortage, the nature of its distribution throughout the country and the probable cost of remedying it to a material degree. Information that was required of citizens through the medium of the cen sus papers will doubtless go some way toward filling in the statistical gap. but even the knowledge obtained from that source is hardly likely to be adequate for the Government’s purpose.—Otago Daily Times. ■ """" :