HOUSING PROBLEM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14260, 17 November 1920, Page 5

HOUSING PROBLEM.

..HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. THE POSITION IN 1825. - The acute position in housing which > i 3 being experienced to-day was jus> .as keenly felt away back in the yean 1825. After referring to the amassi <- Influx of population that took phice at Nottingham,, England, owing to tin•extraordinary prosperity of the lace m •dustry, an entry in the ' avs; _* • Thousands ot houses tvcri •erected by speculators. Many move would have been built, had not the jtrices of land and materials been extravagantly enhanced. Bricks, ±or e - •simple, rose from 30/- to • Pei ’’ .sand- and a plot of land on Gilliilowct kill/not, quite an acre in extent, was sold bv auction for £4OOO. No soom.i was a" row of dwellings roofed and glazed, than the kitchen fires began to smoke, and the rentals toco—o. "The inquirv was not so much W hat . -the rent?” as “Will you let me a house.'" In one instance, a butcher who had been exhibiting f;-mn town to crown, a “wonderful pig. 11 common showman’s caravan, ousted the porkine •tenant, and stationing the vehicle m his garden at the back of lork Street, actually let it as a dwelling house for per week.”