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Western Star, 22 August 1924, Page 3

“Is it not curious nobody seems to have realised that the greatest benefactor we could have in tho housing problem would lie the man who could teach us how to biyld houses, out of paper:-” asked Mr Neville Chamberlain M.P., the new president, on tuing tlie chair, at the international conference iof the People's League of Health.at Wembley lately. “It is an unfortunate crcumstance,” be added, “that you should build houses whose life is so much longer than will bo warranted by the constant progress of knowledge and understanding.” We were building hawses to-day which were expected to last 80 years. Long before i their life was exhausted they would he lout of touch with the general idea of 'what houses should bo. | The Daily Express says: it- is admitted in British circles that there is a. serious situation in \ fghani'tan. 'lhe ‘revolution in June, which was suppressed, again broke out Violently.