STRAIGHT TALK FOR ELECTORS.
HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE. The need for a. comprehensive, sound and statesmanlike solution of the housing problem is olio of the most pressing needs of Kew Zealand to-day. The Reform Government, in its ('[forts to produce a scheme likely to iviu votes has been able to think of nothing better than the old liberal measure’ vise Workers’ Dwellings Act, decked’ out with a few new frills. The new bIMz.atiou demands an entirely now measure, and to Sir .Josojh Ward belongs the credit of the proposal to provide comfortable homos which may be purchased for 10s a week (as against 15s to £1 under the Reform Act) The financial basis of the Liberal scheme is eminently sound. Some of the people’s money, deposited in the Post Office Savings Rank, is to be used each year to provide homes for the people. This money can be lent at 3£ per cent including sinking fund for repayment, as against 5 per cent for interest unde’the Reformers’ Act. A vote for Sir Josopii Ward’s plan. What will von do
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19811, 1 December 1919, Page 7
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