OVERCROWDED.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18413, 20 June 1925, Page 14

OVERCROWDED.

.WELLINGTON'S POPULATION.

(rnrss associvtiox teleoeam.)

WELLINGTON, June 19

The Wellington City Council's committee on housing has reported that over 10 per cent of the population is overcrowded.

There are 629 one-roomed' dwellings, occupiod by 1222 people. _ In a few cases as many as five to nine persons live in the same room. The committee estimated that the Council could build a house for £BOO, and, if the land cost £IOO, it could with all charges be Bold at a price which 28s, a week would cover. The Council discussed the report, one member pointing out that land could not be obtained for £IOO. Pending information as to whether thu Government would advance £IOO,OOO, tho report was merely received. Mr Mitchell, an ' ox-councillor, and Mr "Watt, who had been experimenting in standardised houses, announce that a five-roomed cottage of concrete can be built for £GCO and an extra room for £IOO. provided that they are all of the one design and all allowing £l5O for the land. The purchuse money could be paid off in 3L : i years at £1 0s 6d a week for a four-roomed' house, and £1 3s 0d for a five-roomed one.