WORKMEN’S HOUSES IN LIMERICK.

New Zealand Tablet, 9 January 1913, Page 39

WORKMEN’S HOUSES IN LIMERICK.

Paii i Sp ® al ; in S at T th ? meeting of the St. Vincent de Mrff S lStnC n Nursing Association at Limerick, the Most Rev. Dr. O Dwyer congratulated the Mayor (Councillor I Ryan) upon the building of houses for W bS m K g aSSeS - ? was a deli S ht t 0 see the change that had been wrought in St. John’s parish, formerly a mass of wreck and rum and a disgrace. He believed homes for workers ought to be found by those for whom they worked, on whom there was a moral obligation to do so, if reasonably within their power A arge company like the G.S. and W. Railway that woh Cq r e f d n a great monopoly in Limerick, and in tvo-thuds of the South or Ireland, should obtain money under the Working Classes Act, and build houses for every man m their employment in Limerick. If the facilities offered by that Act were availed of, the whole face of the city would be changed.