HOUSING SHORTAGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 276, 22 November 1943, Page 2

HOUSING SHORTAGE

DISCUSSED BY AUSTRALIAN WOMEN (Special Australian Correspondent—N.Z.P.A.) Recd. 6 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 20. More than 200 delegates are attending the Australian women's conference, the most representative gathering of women’s organisations yet held in the Commonwealth. Fourteen trades unions are included, among 71 organisations from all States represented at the conference. One of the speakers, Dr. Hilda Bull, assistant medical officer in Melbourne, said it was recognised that poverty was the prime cause of 111-health.” “A children’s hospital is a monument to the failure of a community to provide a decent living standard for the majority of its best citizens,” she declared. The conference at its opening session discussed Australia’s acute housing shortage. Mrs. Evatt, wife of the Minister of External Affairs. Dr. Evatt, emphasised the value of the cooperation of women architects in planning post-war reconstruction, which must embody the fundamental need of a home for every Australian family. Women spent so many hours daily in the kitchen that one of the first, aims of home architecture should he to make it a place of comfort and charm. Resolutions arising out of the conference will he embodied in a suggested women’s charter.