Municipal Housing.

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 12, 1 August 1916, Page 701

Municipal Housing.

Wellington City Council considering it.

The question of the City Council's undertaking a municipal housing scheme was briefly before the council last month, when the following two motions were agreed to: By Councillor W. T. Hildreth :—'' That this council take into consideration the question of acquiring land at Lyall Bay for the purpose of building cottages for such of the corporation employees as may be desirous of taking advantage of this scheme." By Councillor J. Hutcheson:"That a select committee, consisting of His Worship the Mayor,

Councillors Hildreth, Bennett, Frost, Wright, and the mover, be set up to inquire into and report on the following matters: —(1) Location, area, and estimated values of suitable available sites; (2) class, size, and structural description, and design of buildings; (3) estimated cost of different types of suitable buildings; (4) (a) method of allocation of dwellings amongst applicants, (fe) order of eligibility of applicants; (5) description of tenure or variations thereof; and (6) financial arrangements to give effect to scheme.

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