HOUSING SHORTAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19992, 16 September 1936, Page 6

HOUSING SHORTAGE.

“REAL HOME®.” government houses. MR SAVAGE ALLAYS FEARS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. “The Mayor of Lower Hutt may rC st assured the Government is going tu do nothing that will spoil his garden suburbs,” said the Prime Minister Mr Savage, commenting on a discussion by the Lower Hutt Borough Council in reference to the Government’s housing scheme. Fears were expressed by the council that Hie scheme would result in the appearance of monotonous rows of massproduced houses. -The houses we build,” said Mr Savage, “will be real homes and nobody will be able to point at them and say, ‘They are Government houses.’ We’ are not going to build houses according to one pattern. I venture to say the houses we build in Lower Hutt will be on a par with what are there now'. The Government will also see to it that the sections on which the houses are built will be large enough to enable the people living in them to have a decent garden.” POSITION OF RATEB. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Invited to comment regarding the payment of rates on State-owned houses the Minister of Finance, the lion. W. Nash, said he made the point unite clear when moving the second reading of the State Advances Corporation Act in the House of Representatives un May 28. Mr Nash said he then stated: “Our proposals provide for rates to be paid to the local authority when a house is let. so that in respect of properties of which the Stale is mortgagee in possession, or of which the State is agent for the mortgagor that are let ,ii ordinary rentals, full rates will be paid to the local authorities concerned.'*