WORKERS' HOMES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13484, 26 July 1907, Page 5

WORKERS' HOMES.

The best way to regulate rent was by the erection of workers' homes.. He had twelve going up in Wellington, and he would be able to show then such an object lesson as to rentals in the city as would prove what some people were getting out of it, because he. would table to give a six-roomed: house, fitted up with all conveniences, with lani valued at £10 a foot, at 14s Id per week, and a/fiveTTpomed house at less. That was what he hoped to be able to do in the towns. Also he pointed out that he could ndt give cheap homes un less the maximum value for the section ?was £80. If he expended £350 on tha house, that, with fencing, etc., ran t&3 capital value up to £450. Since ne came into office he had only bought 3i acres of -land, and he' had sufficient land left to go on building. As a matter of fact he had handed over 230 acres cf « land at the Upper Hutt to the Land for Settlements Board as he saw no chance of utilising it for workmen's homes for tweniy yeajp. ,He was going in less for prnajnentation in the 'dwellings and. he believed "'Chat the prosecution of the scheme would, do more to make rents fair than anything" else. If the workers .demanded them he would build thMy Pr forty, or fifty houses every yenr; but he <jOHldnot build in more than one place at a time, because he now had -aa^architeet; for., the scheme who drew plans, laid out the grounds, and supervised the erection? of 'He buildings.