Heartening Progress In Housing Ex-Servicemen: Facilities For Children

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 33, 31 March 1948, Page 8

Heartening Progress In Housing Ex-Servicemen: Facilities For Children

Housing was still a real problem, "but it was heartening to note that during the past 12 months 8000 exservicemen had been given some form of housing assistance, said Mr B. Barrington, member of the Rehabilitation Board, seconding the adoption of the report by the chairman, the Hon. C. F. Skinner., at the quarterly meeting of the Rehabilitation Council held in Wellington. In the same period there had been a decrease of 800 in the number of unsatisfied applications for State rental houses, while the number of State houses allocated to ex-service-men during last December and January had been almost 100 more than the number allocated in the same months the year before. He hoped these indications would continue. Mr Barrington referred to the facilities available to children of deceased or totally disabled servicemen. Advisory committees had been set up throughout New Zealand and the members of those committees were well qualified to advise both children and guardians. Close liaison was kept with the Heritage movement.' He was sure the scheme would be a success. Several children of deceased servicemen would be attending university this year with asssitance from the Rehabilitation Board. These children had had good scholastic records.