MINERS' HOUSING CONDITIONS
* A PRESSING PROBLEM. ; (P*» Prbs# Association.3 WELLINGTON. May 23. ltofaroEC« was niade by the Minister of Minos, in <in address to the Town Planning Conference to-day, to the housing conditions in the West Coast mining centres, and an indication wasi given that remedial measures would! ha.v'O to bo undertaken. The Minister said that an exhaustive report he had received points out that much of the industrial unrest and dissatisfaction of the miners may bo attributed to tile sorditlncss of their housing conditions and the monotony of their home life. The cpioation of providing adequate housing, with due regard to social conditions, muse bo promptly faced and answered. The problem to be solved in the milling industry was part of the probieni of housing and town planning generally, and the result of the present conference s deliberations should be of material assistance in arriving. at a solution. ThoJTou J. T. Paul said that good housing would wove an invaluable factor in ending industrial unrest.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12636, 22 May 1919, Page 5
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