WHEN THE WAR ENDS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 42, 20 April 1942, Page 2

WHEN THE WAR ENDS

SHORTAGE OF HOUSING

"Directly I lie war ends, and tho soldiers iind evacuate!! people come flocking back, there wiil he such a shortage <:f housing accommodation ;:s we have never known. Under its

stress, fine long-distance plans- may quickly he in danger. Something must he done at once, plan or no plan. We should be prepared, therefore. for this influx, perhaps by tem-

porary wooden or asbestos towns in the parks of our cities, even one it necessary in Hyde Park itself, and be prepared, too, to put up "with them for the next five years. Tho

grand possibilities now open must not be endangered by any -!crm;inent rebuilding, in tiie wrong place or of the wrong kind. Granting all this, what may be hoped for? First. I think, a country freed from rash speculative building in which the oldest and largest of our industries, agriculture, finds a permanent and honoured p'ace, and adds its own quota to the beauty of the countryside. Secondly, sunny, airy towns, with large new open spaces, perhaps even with tongues of country, where the destruction had been bad enough, running right up to the heart of the c ity."—Professor C. H. Reilly, in the Daily Mail Year Book, on "A Planned Britain.