HOUSING BILL.
HOMES BY THE HUNDRED. By Teleeraph-Prees Association-Copyright Sydney, February 29. In moving the second reading of the Housing Bill in the Legislative Assembly, llr. Dacoy, the State Treasurer, declared that tho"scheme would cause no great drain on the labour market. For every tradesman required one would be brought from England to replace him. It was proposed to erect a garden city and offer the.people a healthy life. No hotels would be allowed within the area. He considered it equally necessary for tho Government to construct houses as railways. They would cost-half a million. Between eight hundred and nine hundred houses tire to be erected. One Labour member came into collision with the Chair, and was removed from the Chamber. The second reading of the Bill was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1377, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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129HOUSING BILL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1377, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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