WORKERS' HOMES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 442, 26 February 1909, Page 11

WORKERS' HOMES.

■*•'.*Arij ; 4ou preparedrto toi ro-lieve:tlie'.-workers ,of the burfeusimp.o6ed.by the ■ grasping:'■ system of landlprdry ; in _this oityP & ;,,v&.|,qil e Etion put to.Sir. Joseph Ward by, a Sobißliet-leader at the unemployed depu;tation. in Auckland :ou Saturdaj; night (says the "iNew.Zealand-'Herald"). , V' : ;';'■.■,." V' -Another, /member, of-;the: > deputations . lie slums, of Auokland aie a disgcace;.to Auflkland, and ;to-humahity.... ■■<'■'■:.:>,■ f. ■;. \-:•, v•■The Prime Minister:.:We-4re : ;doing. something very -considerable noiv.HiWc.'are adyanc-. iag; half;,* million a year: at; to ; -MrVil. : F ; ' : Way; , wharf 'labourers. -You. know thesemen .ha.veH.6.; liTe.vriJhm cooee' of the::wharres.",-,They,Hv6rk:at.'all;ioure. w The ■oity: : - is,:: owned •/■.priTK.tel r ;;s;.njnd;;-,whot.:; qhance, .those men/got of, : buying, a>sepl;ion m .tie I oity on ..which ; to":, build ?,•■■ dTie . great > bulk; of casual .labourers:must.reside' , in the centre ot. ■"\^li■Vaih^ininVTemaftβli■■thal:••ttβ :! Mro» ( ;to : S«ttlers ' Office-had stopped lending. :...; . -Sir ■ Joseph:' The office, has '.to. eo; mu6h'. : -per'.month.. "If it: advanced . the;- whole year's-allowance straight .away -there soon be' an outcry: :I admit the. system aoesn t get overithe'diiScultyof the. casual labourer. .. V'Al; a house •"iwould:!do-iti/ i r : -.vvv;;':"'- , v : v-.f:''--'--' 11 -'''.----:>:- : 1 vAnothsr; speaker said that' Tents /were.very. high, ; farHoo-high. Where.Bs..or -108.;:wQuld .secure; ar.four-ro.omed- house -a few :"years .back, ißi:was';asked how, and: houses obtainable .at :that .were'often,;out' of. lepair...' Houses which wore ': rented;: utt 6s. : and.:Bs.;.-some;,eight. years ago , had not. had- a' penny, spent. .on.-,them in that'period, and:.vet. the landlprds asked from : 15si-:to;^ei i: i6r them:now. • ';■■■.. ■'. ".'. : : r ■