WORKMEN'S HOMES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14275, 16 August 1910, Page 6

WORKMEN'S HOMES.

IDEAS 'WANTED. A correspondent of the ■•'Taraiiaki'' Herald." says;— One of the first s:gi:s of prosperity is the occupation of empty houses, and file tide quickly rec.-i.des if fiesii houses are not built, if the building trade is hod kept going 310thing'else will be for any length of time. 1 do nnt. of course, know much about the building trade, but 1. do know this, that at pi-i.sent prices it is quite im- ' possible tor any man to buiid a house that will p;iy to Jet. I suppose verv lew people will deny that unless a house can be made, to bring in at least eight ■■ per cent., a, wise man will keep his money in his pockets rather than build houses to hold as an invest incut. It may often pay to build a hou-e in order to sell a section, but what is wanted ; is to know the ivav to build so as to hold, for in that case the community is '■ benefited by example. When 1 was in : England there was a areat discussion 1 going 011 lespec-tiug the building <,',' : agricultural labourers' cottages. iuid it was impossible to get a i'air'annual return for them if vou were rash enou'dt ! to build them. The matter was warnAtaken up by one <; f the papers—l think it was the Daily Graphic—and irn e» ! Jubition of model houses was held and it was proved conclusively that houses could b e . built much more elieaplv than I was p:-ev,o,.,s!y supi.escd : and who can i doubt that this knowledge did much to | alleviate the evils ;.Hsin- from want of employments I „. Rnt t „ know whether something of the same kind ean be dor, m New Plymouth. An exhOrti,,,, \,f i mede.s would be useless, but ; s there 110 Rudders' Association, whoso mem- i Iv'.vs can put their brains together and dev.se some kind of houses of „ nild quabty where expensive details " aro j omitted and whrr:-. by the use of stock I s'sios, etc., mucii monev can be saved 0 ' J do not siiirpest one model onlv. but j Mm Somf \ ™ ,le " r ton > so as tn'.dve a little variety. What I imagim are are. say. four, fire, or six room',l houses with bathrooms and other eo, venienecs, and if „ paying price could