HOUSING POLICY
COUNCIL SCHEME FAVOURED In moving a resolution at the annual meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce that support should be given to the Borough Council’s housing scheme to provide 50 houses, Mr A. J. Yendell said it was hard to understand why members of the council considered that housing was a responsibility cf the Government, when they, no doubt, themselves believed in the rights of free enterprise. “It appears that we continue to blame the Government for imposing bureaucratic control and interfering in every walk of life, but immediately we run up against a problem such as this we demand that the Government should do the work,” said Mr Yendell. Such action was only undermining the principles of local self-government.
Other members considered that it was in the interests of a policy of de-centralisation that such work should be a local undertaking, and that schemes carried out by the Government in the past were too long delayed. A resolution was passed supporting the scheme put forward by the Borough Council, prided that such houses were offered for sale to their occupants on a reducible mortgage basis, representing the lowest possible weekly terms, and it was urged that the Borough Council should avoid the unnecessary delay in the matter.
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Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22203, 24 November 1943, Page 2
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