HOUSING SHORTAGE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 16, 13 October 1944, Page 5

HOUSING SHORTAGE

-USE OF MILITARY HUTMENTS Borough council's discussion Urging again that the Council should give fuller consideration to the question of the establishment of temporary dwellings in the Domain, the! Deputy Mayor, Cr S. S. at the /Borough Council meeting fast Monday said: that it) was not the intention to try and create a slum area at all but merely to provide a roof for workers who were unable to find! accommodation. He A\ r ent on to say that he die} not "think that the Government had considered the question from a district point of view. Why could not concrete houses be constructed, he asked? Materials Avere much handier .than timber. Everything seemed to point to State houses at the present time but the process Avas- far too slow and if the' same pace were maintained they Avould never catch tip with the position.

The, Mayor: The present position lis more the lack of manpower than anything else. HoAA T ever the committee set up by the council has been referred to the War Assets Re-* alisation Board in Auckland, and they will soon liaA*e all the information they need.

Cr Warren mentioned the discussion at the Chamber of Commerce •when the acute position was emphasised from personal angles. He quoted the suggestion of bringing suitable huts from Tauranga.

The Maj r or pointed out that the liuts were, not cheap in any and that to transport them, ? and set them up in the Domain, link them -with the town's water supply and power was going to make them very expensive propositions. Cr Creeke suggested that the com■Triit.tfiß view the buildings at Tauranga .